LLMs do the gilding better than the fundamentals.
- LLMs do the gilding better than the fundamentals.
- Which makes sense; they're optimized for the superficial results.
- Quality is harder to judge than surface characteristics.
- Goodhart's law.
- So vibecoding and other agentic production processes produce gilded turds by default.
- This mean that the more shiny things are, the more suspicious people are of the underlying quality.
- Superficial quality is now extremely cheap; fundamental quality is just as expensive as ever.
- The glut of superficial quality means that the average shiny thing you see will have worse internals than before.