Hackers' Pub

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

2/17/2026, 5:14:40 PM

Public

The slop huckster's dilemma:

"AI assisted tools are powerful but they should only be used by experts to work on things they're already experts in"

AND

It's hard to build expertise without going through the hard problems yourself, and the human brain is not conditioned to go through the hard things when there is a magical lever you could just pull that mostly does it for you

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