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johnfnyesterday at 7:52 AM1 replyview on HN

On the other side of the spectrum, I see some of the latest agents, like Codex, take care to get accessibility right -- something not even many humans bother to do.


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becquerelyesterday at 8:58 AM

It's an extension of how I've noticed that AIs will generally write very buttoned-down, cross-the-ts-and-dot-the-is code. Everything gets commented, every method has a try-catch with a log statement, every return type is checked, etc. I think it's a consequence of them not feeling fatigue. These things (accessibility included) are all things humans generally know they 'should' do, but there never seems to be enough time in the day; we'll get to it later when we're less tired. But the ghost in the machine doesn't care. It operates at the same level all the time