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Synthetic sagas

Jamie Brandon · 20 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    With AI-generated code, how much faster you can go is limited by how well you can generate trust or mitigate damage.

    Their wordsYou can only go faster to the extent that you can figure out how to either generate trust or mitigate damage.

  2. Our reading

    The low-quality software that AI makes possible is a mistake to bemoan, because the alternative it replaces was no software at all, not high-quality software.

    Their wordsI expect an onslaught of low-quality software, but it's a mistake to bemoan the quality without realizing that the previous alternative was not high-quality software but no software at all.

  3. Our reading

    AI model improvements must tail off at some point, but there is no reason that point has to come soon.

    Their wordsThe improvements must surely tail off at some point, but I see no reason why that point has to come any time soon.

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