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joshribakoffyesterday at 2:51 PM0 repliesview on HN

After a while many people then realize this often produces worse results by injecting additional noise in context like the overhead of invoking the gh cli and parsing json comments or worse the mcp.

But they get the dopamine loop of keeping the loop alive, flashing colors, high score/token use, and plausible looking outputs — so its easy to deceive oneself into thinking something remarkable was discovered