1 pointby maxim_bg4 hours ago3 comments
  • animuchan4 hours ago
    I think there's like the meta-bad AI usage idea, in which all other tarpit ideas take root.

    "Let's outsource critical decision making to a language model."

    Small scale of this can be seen when attempting to single-shot a whole SaaS by the means of a severely underspecified prompt. This is the first-order blind reliance situation: our SaaS sure is implemented in some way.

    Really fiery tarpits put the LLM higher in the stack: let the language model decide what the feature should be. Our SaaS sure does something in some way.

    Having a human in the loop at all times doesn't scale. Not having a human scales, but doesn't work.

  • PaulHoule4 hours ago
    I think “cases where AI lets you escape an old tarpit” are interesting even if they are likely to remain tarpits.
  • maxim_bg4 hours ago
    another one probably "ai cold outbound"