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AI has no intent and no motivation

48 points · 61 comments · aquastorm

  1. skybrian · · focus · HN ↗
    Also true of a land mine, but that’s not very reassuring.

    Motivation or not, I find a coding agent can be quite the busy beaver. Ask a question and it goes off and does it. I certainly don’t need to motivate them. I had to put a line in AGENTS.md to make no changes when there’s a question in the prompt. It doesn’t always work.

    Seems like motivation is irrelevant? They don’t need it.

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