The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

Pydantic co-founder explains how LLMs are creating a fundamentally destabilizing shift in developers' relationships with their work. It's argued that LLMs turn programming from a craft into a supervisory role of reviewing, validating, and guiding AI-generated code. The piece explores the dopamine dynamics, the erosion of flow state, the exhaustion of constant human-in-the-loop oversight. It goes on to recognize a need to acknowledge this tension rather than pretending it doesn't exist in order to avoid burnout.