With AI coding, we are the tailpipe
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And so I think that the payload that comes along with AI coding is the AI's inefficiency is us. We are the tailpipe.
Episode 250: Dopaminergic (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:28:34 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave quotes a line from his reading: mechanical efficiency always externalizes its inefficiencies, the way a car pushes heat and exhaust out the tailpipe. Applied to AI coding, the inefficiency gets pushed onto the human: the mental load, mania and exhaustion of overseeing it.
Not in the audio. The book and author of 'mechanical efficiency always externalizes its inefficiencies' aren't named in this passage (Dave says only 'he makes this one comment' in something he read last night).
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Episode 250: Dopaminergic (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:27:44 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
so last night and he makes this one comment. He says, mechanical efficiency always externalizes its inefficiencies.
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