The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

pydantic.dev · 1 month ago · 47 ● 3 sources

Developers using LLMs for coding find it simultaneously productive and destabilizing, as the satisfying parts of programming get automated while supervision and review create new fatigue. The constant availability of AI parallelizes task creation but bottlenecks on human judgment, replacing dopamine hits from solving problems with the exhaustion of quality-checking machine output. The core skill of engineering judgment becomes more valuable, not less, but the isolated human-in-the-loop work lacks the collaborative rewards that previously sustained motivation.