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kaicianfloneyesterday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I agree with this almost completely. The hard part isn’t generation anymore, it’s validation of intent vs outcome. Especially once decisions are high-stakes or irreversible, think pkg updates or large scale tx

What I’m working on (open source) is less about replacing human validation and more about scaling it: using multiple independent agents with explicit incentives and disagreement surfaced, instead of trusting a single model or a single reviewer.

Humans are still the final authority, but consensus, adversarial review, and traceable decision paths let you reserve human attention for the edge cases that actually matter, rather than reading code or outputs linearly.

Until we treat validation as a first-class system problem (not a vibe check on one model’s answer), most of this will stay in “cool demo” territory.


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sonofhansyesterday at 6:18 PM

“Anymore?” After 40 years in software I’ll say that validation of intent vs. outcome has always been a hard problem. There are and have been no shortcuts other than determined human effort.

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