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Warranty Void If Regenerated

A small-town software mechanic diagnoses the gap between what people ask for and what they get — and discovers that the specification problem may be the defining challenge of the post-transition economy.

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March 28, 2026 — spotted by Scott
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"It's a tweet about someone noticing that their OpenClaw setup will quickly get too complicated and start breaking in ways they won't know how to catch and fix. Essentially someone realizing the need for a software mechanic like Tom Hartmann."

Editor's Note:

The tools always work at first. But as they get more complex we start to run into issues, and this person can already see it coming. Will we be able to avoid it even if we know it's possible? Did that stop us from writing spaghetti code pre-LLM?

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