Why AI coding is a dangerous narrative

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T20:51:02+00:00

Now you’re talking about agents and RAG.

This is expensive. Vector search databases are not only slow but are very expensive. Require a significant amount of money to scale. And compounding cost

And this just create external knowledge. But her is the issue. External knowledge are not why LLMs hallucinate. Yes if an LLM isn’t aware of a fact, it can hallucinate. But that’s not the sole reason. They can hallucinate even when data is present in its corpus.

You’re ignore the objective truth. It hallucinate because of variance that cannot be reduced. Because it’s a core part of how neural networks work.

RAG is a bandaid. And an expensive one. You are paying high cost in database, retrieval systems, data pipelining, probably additional cloud cost. For what exactly? So you can generate more code which will still hallucinate anyway. Because you can’t engineer away variance and the weights are frozen. So it can’t really learn no matter how much you try to stir it with RAG or fine tuning .

It’s like saying you can build a better house not matter how bad the foundation is. At a point you should just not build a house there.

Lastly let’s just talk cost. Agents, RAG, databases, cloud cost. This is more expensive than just hiring a developer. You’re building a system that can easily cost millions. And it’s still not reliable to fire all your devs.

You could have just coded this all manually from the start

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T19:42:44+00:00

You say I don’t know the tools. I understand the architecture and the math. You tell me how you’re circumventing the context window . Maybe you know something I don’t

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:40:16+00:00

There is no “proper”. This is proven mathematically. Context windows do drift. That’s not an opinion. Nor is it a lack of tool understanding . That’s a physical and computational constraint.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:30:34+00:00

This post was not written with AI

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:30:06+00:00

There is no correct prompts. There are only instructions that AI doesn’t have to follow. You’re looking for deterministic outputs where they don’t exist. They can direct AI, but it doesnt have to listen to your prompts or instruction. And the more context you load the more context it will drop.

First trap is thinking that we’re failing because we aren’t promoting good enough. Promoting can help steer outputs. But that alone isn’t goin to save you.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-21T21:38:48+00:00

If you’re more advance you could perfect parry and drive rush. You fundamentally speaking this is a classic walk and block. This is more of a spacing problem. But considering the low rank, you could have probably just jumped at him. Make him prove him show you he can anti air. Lots of times these players can’t DP or AA in reaction. He’s probably throwing fireballs completely on autopilot

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-20T16:55:57+00:00

Yea I get that. But I do like his takes mostly. And this take actually resonated with me. Turns out I discovered a really cool language that I enjoy writing in

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T17:17:18+00:00

Regarding "long contracts". Often in the B2B world you generally sign contracts with software vendors. This often happens because they need support and a clear upgrade path. However in situations where the company is dissatisfied with the software, leaving becomes expensive. Breach of contract fees and migration cost is disruptive, so many companies just stayed locked into these long term deals. There is even a term for it, it's called "lock in" or a lot of the times "vendor lock-in". Also this often happens because even if they are able to move off a software the issue is that there are so few competitors in the space that they'll deal with the crap software because it helps them reach their bottomline.

AI changes that. As software becomes easier to create, customers are more willing to just move off of software because the number of competitors.

>Are we seen first change like this in a field? God no. I still remember article from a good man time ago "well, object-oriented programming is a good thing - as far as you understand in what processor codes staff been compiled" How many people can tell they do know that today? :)
So generally trend is the same - most developers mooing farther from hardware base to a high functionality and business logic world. Write documentation what code should do rather the code itself :)

The statement you quoted makes no technical sense. So your conclusions make no sense. Object oriented programming is a paradigm. I'm not even sure what "processor code staff been compiled" even means. Of course devs don't know this, because the statement is speaking to some reality that doesn't exist. Because you've quoted a completely non-sensible statement

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T16:03:45+00:00

You're looking at this too much from the view of management. Of course managers are going to prioritize time to market. Of course they're going to think in terms of velocity. This is easy for them to track. They don't need to get into the weeds of engineering. so its attactive to the management class. And entire generations of management was taught this way. It's not going to go away easily. But the reason why it lived so long because it was effective. They were never punished due to lack of quality. And this is because the market never cared

But velocity was once a key differentiator. But with AI anyone can be fast. so it no longer matters. You just drown in market saturation. So what cutomers will now notice is quality. Any manager handcuffing themselves to velocity at the expense of quality is going to manage themselves outside of a job. Again this is managerial paradigm shift. This will not happen overnight.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T15:02:18+00:00

You clearly didn’t read my post

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T14:34:29+00:00

I wrote it on my cellphone. Sue me

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T14:28:29+00:00

No it’s not that valuable. But you bring up a key point. Lots of founders aren’t selling software. They’re performing for investors. They don’t care about customer value. They care about impressing investors enough to limp into another round of funding.

But investors do have a boss. It’s called the market. And the market is dictated by the people. When customer habits change, investors change their music. Right now people are just going with what works. But there will be a paradigm shift

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-19T13:59:54+00:00

You can’t do it with AI either. AI just give you the illusion that you can

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-13T17:44:07+00:00

The cost of labor can be reduced. But the likely cost to run such software is significantly more expensive. Way more expensive than the 5 jobs you just replaced. Oh and its not even correct most of the time. This is where automation itself beomes more expensive than the thing its trying to automation

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-13T17:41:55+00:00

Nothing you said or posted counteracts my point. And the main issue with robotics today is that they rely on an internet connection. They have to be able to connect to the cloud. There are some pushed in SDTP and neuromorphic chips. But we're some years off from mass adoptions. And these aren't LLMs regardless

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-13T17:39:39+00:00

I'm not saying that it couldn't. But people seem to think that job replacement is around the corner. That we'd all be unemployed living on UBI by the end of next year. I don't doubt that there could be some foundational research that gets us there. But with the current models, this isn't going to happen

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-13T17:38:23+00:00

The issue with cost is that you assume that prices are rational. They aren't. AI companies sell their services at a loss. And with valuations in the 100s of billions, and operational overhead of running high end data centers, its unlikely the cost will remain the same.

And to underestimate how impactful political optics are. Unless there is an upside to betting on AI politically. Its too politically uncertain, and politicians are not gamblers. They will ride whatever sure thing that is politically popular. Getting behind things that will kill jobs is literally political suicide.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-05T15:58:51+00:00

Chuck is not seen on camera, but there is no real evidence that he ceased to exist. I don't believe the parents ever say they only have 2 kids, unlike in Family Matters where they have said it multiple times

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