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Another word Ive coined for the AI wastelands;
CATA
Compute Anticipatory Termination AnxietyThat creeping dread during long runs where you stop thinking about the problem and start mentally rehearsing how it will fail mid completion.
It hits hardest in the “too far to restart, too early to trust” zone; when every progress bar update feels like a coin flip between success and wasted compute.
Symptoms include excessive log refreshing, aggressive checkpointing and compression, Docs commits, and emotionally projecting onto uptime metrics.
In short:
when you’re no longer #vibecoding the system, you’re just hoping it survives you.
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