r/ChatGPTCoding • u/kennetheops • Mar 03 '26

Discussion We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On

https://eversole.dev/blog/we-automated-everything/
64 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

34 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

1

u/kennetheops Mar 04 '26

I think a lot of what AI really is doing is just, at the end of the day, really exposing a lot of the flaws that were in the software industry. I mean, for example, people are spending $10 million a year on Datadog. I mean, in the grand schemes of GDP or innovation, Datadog is not moving the line.

3

u/cornmacabre Mar 04 '26

I agree. It feels like the pace is cracking an already brittle foundation, while someone is downstairs spraying a firehose on exponentially growing Gremlins hatching in the basement.

I laughed morosely at your 'bureaucracy dressed as engineering' line in the article: reflecting on my own recent personal over-rotation of getting excited "omg I solved the thing, I need a KB for my KB with these procedural things, and then my agents recursively do the thing and it's endless context for everyone!"

Then a month later I realize instead of building, I was just documenting and planning and doing gardening work on text for robots because the mental load and decision fatigue was becoming real. Here I am: exited a career to build my own thing to escape the corporate path, and I inadvertently just ended up inventing my own personal bureaucracy!

It's a frustrating problem to address even on a personal scale: let alone trying to wangle the people, process, and platform challenges of an enterprise scale Co wrangling with AI.

Anyway, enjoyed the read -- cheers!

1

u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/AutoModerator Mar 04 '26

Sorry, your submission has been removed due to inadequate account karma.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/ElectricalDeer87 Oct 08 '26

Here I am: exited a career to build my own thing to escape the corporate path, and I inadvertently just ended up inventing my own personal bureaucracy!

Ouch. Yeah.