Reading AI believers’ reactions to the Jepsen/ParticleDB thing is wild. Someone else said the phrase “AI can never fail, it can only be failed” and holy shit it’s so true of these people’s belief systems. Like there’s so much of people commenting that they probably weren’t doing this or that particular One Weird Trick that is supposed to make agentic coding actually good, and then someone else commenting that they did in fact do that and it didn’t help. You see it in the day to day of AI coders too. Every time someone finds a fault in something they’ve slopped together it’s “oh no I must not have prompted it correctly”, they’ll twist themselves into pretzels to avoid acknowledging that the tool they’ve rebuilt their entire identity around is letting them down. It’s almost religious and that’s so offputting.