The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

Laura Summers of Pydantic describes the real fatigue of coding with LLMs: code generation works, but human energy gets drained by constant reviewing, correcting, and holding intent. Her colleague Douwe wakes up to 30 AI-generated PRs daily and feels the pull to delegate review to AI too—raising the question of what he's still doing there. She calls this supervision fatigue and notes AI increases how many things you can start, but not how many you can thoughtfully finish. A Berkeley Haas study is cited: AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it.

Why it matters: A frontline developer from Pydantic articulates the exhaustion of reviewing AI-generated code and coins the term 'supervision fatigue.' It's more resonant than most product updates. Score isn't higher because it's an opinion piece without new data or tool releases, but the tak...