The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
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On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Yet another thought piece about LLMs. I know. Bear with me. This is an attempt to put words around something I think most developers are experiencing right now but haven't had time to make sense of. Programming with LLMs is genuinely useful and genuinely destabilizing. These two things coexist. If we pretend the second one isn't happening, we will all burn out. At Pydantic, we build tools that developers use to validate data, build AI agents, and observe what their systems are doing in production. We are, quite literally, in the business of making LLM-powered software more reliable. And we…
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