thoughts & links on AI & code

I’ve been using Claude Code on a side project of mine, and have been both impressed and wary of what it can do. It’s able to take direction very well, and can “fill in the blanks” well enough much of the time (but will lie to you about what’s in the blanks). It will still leave blanks in and not tell you, non-deterministically1; it behooves You The Human to review everything it does. The corollary to this is that You The Human need to be able to judge whether the LLM is confidently lying to you (or even unintentionally bullshitting you). If you can’t tell, then you run the risk of making decisions based on literally-meaningless associations. Links to other folks’ thoughts “The Human in the Loop”, January 18 2026 junior dev / rote work is now automatable higher-order review & direction is still key “My worry isn’t that software development is dying. It’s that we’ll build a culture where ‘I didn’t review it, the AI wrote it’ becomes an acceptable excuse.” HN guideline reiteration “Don’t…