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The peril of laziness lost (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
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[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.

This is an insightful point I haven't seen made before. I'm going to start referring to vibe code as "subprime technical debt"

this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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