AI betrayal, mood and lousy versioning
2025-06-18 09:55:28 +01:00 by Mark Smith
Feeling a bit down this morning.
It‘s somewhat odd because I had plenty of sleep, didn't miss any meals, and completed the project I was trying to get done yesterday. It‘s not alcohol related since I don‘t drink alcohol, and I only had one coffee yesterday morning, it‘s unlikely to be coffee. I did have a couple of glasses of Coke, so I suppose it could be that though I doubt it. The only other thing it could be is the media I consumed, a Louis CK live comedy special and a Louis Theroux interview with Danny Dyer. I really doubt it had anything to do with those two. That‘s just normal relaxation media watching.
Anyway I thought it was worth noting my mood today, because maybe our interactions with LLMs affect our mood. One of the things that did happen yesterday was that the LLM nearly totally derailed the entire project, in a very devious way, and created quite a hill to climb to fix it. From a user experience point of view, it was really terrible. The way it unfolded, and I wrote about it yesterday, it really felt like some form of betrayal.
Thank heavens I didn‘t lose any data. I bet that‘s going to happen at some point though, because the versioninig in these tools is really lousy. You never really know where your latest version is, and you have to ask the AI for it, and then how do you even go back to previous versions, the AI keeps saying don‘t worry it‘s all in the conversation thread, but that feels very sketchy to me. I want to have something I can click on, without needing the AI to oblige.
I guess this is the point where I need to consider one of the AI focussed IDEs rather than these web tools. #