alt Hacker Newshttps://thethreevirtues.com paraphrases something Larry Wall wrote in Programming Perl:
> If we’re going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design.
sourced from https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-lazines..., where Bryan Cantrill makes the point that:
> The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.
which I think is interesting, albeit somewhat tangential to the current discussion.
I don't believe this is true.
Remember the "ChatGPT lazy winter" 2 years ago? (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=true&que... )
That was truly "lazy", as in "yo... I'm not interested in doing this so I'll half-ass it or just tell someone else to do it".
The kind of "lazy" that is mentioned in your quote is "I don't want to add work to future me's life". I don't think "lazy" is the right word for it.