The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work

> These tools came about because the cost of trying things out has dropped to nearly zero.

What an obscenely disconnected and privileged notion. "Nearly zero" still currently equates to thousands of dollars of subscription expense per year that normal, workaday people can't afford.

Not to mention the fact that even at this untenable "introductory" level of expense, you're really burning hundreds of thousands of dollars of tokens to do, what was that again?

"Just let the LLM run wild for a while and see what come out the other end?"

"Generate ten solutions to one targeted problem and throw nine of them away because this garbage technology still can't get it right on even the 9th try?"

No wonder the rich bastards of the world love this stuff so much. It encourages so much wanton, indiscriminate, pointless waste in its users.

Sometimes you have a goal & clarity about what you want; others you're just exploring.

Just as non-assisted work: an undisciplined mind will wander. But when there's also an assistant, you're prone to having the wandering done for you.