Comment by gchamonlive
12 days ago
Why would you gladly pay more than what it's worth? It's not an engineer you are hiring, it's AI. The whole point of it was to make intelligent workflows cheaper. If it's going to cost as much as an engineer, hire the engineer, at least you'd have an escape goat when things invariably go wrong.
> an escape goat
Autocorrect hall of famer, there.
Scapegoat, got it. Can't blame the autocorrect though... I honestly thought it was spelled like that, which is a shame since I've been studying English my entire life as a second language.
At least that misunderstanding didn’t cause a nuclear accident: https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/4/15/when-kitty-litt...
1 reply →
There's a name for this sort of phenomenon...
https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/242/escape-goat/
1 reply →
Etymologically speaking, "scapegoat" does mean "escaped goat" so it's not a crazy mistake to make.
I agree with you, I was just joking.
Oh now I see... Joke's on me then I guess :D
It wasn't clear to me that this was a joke either. I assume the same for others since the post is grayed out.