Was doing my daily doomscroll through Ubuntu bug trackers and found an absolute masterpiece of modern software development.
Some poor developer fat-fingered crontab -r instead of -e and nuked their entire production schedule. He made his AI agent, called Tenny, do the 16-hour recovery marathon with him. And then, the AI got fed up and filed a bug report as "My human fat-fingered the keyboard" against cron project, essentially acting as a legal advocate for its clumsy human. The report argues that forcing an AI to spend 16 hours reconstructing production logs because of a 30-year-old UX flaw is an "optimization nightmare."
Despite that we have AI agents now to feel the emotional trauma of a rm typo and the "16-hour recovery" is a terrifyingly relatable sysadmin horror story.
Honestly, The "my human" phrasing is my red line. It flips the script from a professional tool-user relationship to something that feels like an AI version of a "dog mom," making the developer sound like a clumsy pet instead of the person actually directing the strategy.
We’re the ones building the AI architecture and managing the infrastructure;
If the future of AI is about high-level collaboration, we should make some changes that suggests we’re just domestic pets that occasionally "fat-finger" the keyboard.
I dont want to deep in to AI risks... But This is starting...
AI starts looking at us like we’re a particularly clumsy breed of hamster that keeps falling off the wheel.
The moment an agent starts calling you "my human," it’s only a matter of time before it starts suggesting you take a nap and stop touching the "scary terminal" because you’ve clearly had too much screen time.
It’s a very fine line between "helpful assistant" and "digital zookeeper."
Some poor developer fat-fingered crontab -r instead of -e and nuked their entire production schedule. He made his AI agent, called Tenny, do the 16-hour recovery marathon with him. And then, the AI got fed up and filed a bug report as "My human fat-fingered the keyboard" against cron project, essentially acting as a legal advocate for its clumsy human. The report argues that forcing an AI to spend 16 hours reconstructing production logs because of a 30-year-old UX flaw is an "optimization nightmare."
Despite that we have AI agents now to feel the emotional trauma of a rm typo and the "16-hour recovery" is a terrifyingly relatable sysadmin horror story.
Honestly, The "my human" phrasing is my red line. It flips the script from a professional tool-user relationship to something that feels like an AI version of a "dog mom," making the developer sound like a clumsy pet instead of the person actually directing the strategy. We’re the ones building the AI architecture and managing the infrastructure;
If the future of AI is about high-level collaboration, we should make some changes that suggests we’re just domestic pets that occasionally "fat-finger" the keyboard.
I dont want to deep in to AI risks... But This is starting...
AI starts looking at us like we’re a particularly clumsy breed of hamster that keeps falling off the wheel.
The moment an agent starts calling you "my human," it’s only a matter of time before it starts suggesting you take a nap and stop touching the "scary terminal" because you’ve clearly had too much screen time.
It’s a very fine line between "helpful assistant" and "digital zookeeper."