@pac85@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-05 12:54 UTC
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@Raccoon@techhub.social 2026-08-05 17:29
@pac85@social.treehouse.systems This hits on a couple of the ongoing issues with trying to use AI for productivity in general. You can't trust it, and even when it's right it's not necessarily being useful, so it just creates all this text you have to go through... Which ends up being more time spent on messing with the random text generator than actually building understanding within the team and pushing progress on the project.
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@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2026-08-05 18:22
@pac85@social.treehouse.systems An AI review will _always_ miss intent. It cannot infer intent even when it _reads_ like it's inferred intent. But it sure will generate some words for ya. <3
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@madengineering@hachyderm.io 2026-08-05 18:34
@pac85@social.treehouse.systems It sounds like a worse version of PCI compliance, where an it technician is certifying that a website is secure enough to take credit cards. The process starts by the site being scanned and then a report being made of everything that could on any way conceivably be used to hack the site. The one time I did it, I remember having to explain with a straight face that no, it's not possible to hack a site through a referenced image.
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@jdp23@neuromatch.social 2026-08-05 18:44
@pac85@social.treehouse.systems really insightful posts, thanks for taking the time to write it up in so much detail. Back in the day when I worked on static analysis tools, which had a fair number of false positives, everybody’s first reaction was to put them into the build process and crank the warnings up to the highest level … which had the same kind of counterproductive effects you’re describing here. The more successful deployments made it easy for devs to run the tools on their own before checking in (if they wanted to) and focused the build checking on high-accuracy messages and high-severity bugs where it was okay to wade through some false positives because the real ones were so consequential. Sometimes less really is more!