alt Hacker NewsI liked the commentary and the metaphor with the Nyquist theorem. Mathematically speaking it's invalid but the problem being discussed is real - when the velocity of code generation (accelerated by LLMs) outpaces human cognitive capacity to review, test, and mentally model the system, structural coherence collapses.
And we're already there, it's beyond our cognitive capacity to fully understand the (AI) produced volume of work for given unit of time.
In order to really mitigate the human bottleneck, we will either have to reach the AGI, which might not come in the next 10 years or so, or change the form of how we're doing work, review included.
Yes, the analogy is an interesting and useful framing of the problem. I mean, it should be on the analogy shelf next to the blind people observing the elephant, etc.
But also yes, the whole time I read the article, I was really hoping the 2X part wouldn’t be presented literally, because that makes no sense.