Human-in-the-loop theater: approving Claude's 400-line bash scripts with a perfunctory LGTM
generativist · x · 2026-10-31
generativist jokes about the classic coding-agent ritual: Claude stops to warn about a DANGEROUS OPERATION and asks for human oversight, which invariably means glancing at an incomprehensible 400-line temp bash script and giving a perfunctory LGTM. kylebrussell riffs that a Neuralink-embedded LLM won't be enough to stay in the loop—we'd need full wireheading and let LLMs fine-tune our brains.
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