Edgar Pavlovsky: AI iteration may be making us worse at shipping
edgarpavlovsky · x · 2026-09-27
Edgar Pavlovsky reflects on how agents have replaced Twitter-style brainstorming: AI is too agreeable and not imaginative enough, and posting unfinished thoughts now feels irresponsible without first iterating with a model. He argues this has produced a thought-level version of "we can't ship until it's done" syndrome — "do more with agents" warps ambition into overscoping, scope creep, and "one more round of polish won't cost much." He models iteration value with a decay function, v(n) = (1−e^(−kn))·e^(−(d+r)n) − c·n, adding a global decay rate r that's rising faster than ever: since the value of any contribution decays the longer you wait to ship, AI that doesn't force you to ship may be a deeply counterproductive collaborator.
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