The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
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On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself

Douwe put it well: he used to get a dopamine hit from collaborating with a real person on a cool feature in open source. Helping someone become better at their craft. Now, he said, “everything I write goes into some AI black hole. There’s no person on the other side actually learning anything.” That loss is real and it’s worth naming.