briantakita

I was told by an exec...once a company or technology implements something and gets mindshare, the community (including companies) moves on.

Competition is essentially dead for that segment given there is always outward growth.

With that being said, AI enables smaller players to implement their visions with enough completeness to be viable. And with a hands off approach to code, the underlying technology mindshare does not matter as much.

We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?

> Then you should have no issue with people using LLMs to communicate more clearly.

My raw thought: I wonder how many people are really objecting to the loss of exclusivity of their status derived from their relative eloquence in internet forums. When everyone can effectively communicate their ideas, those who had the exclusive skill lose their advantage. Now their core ideas have to improve.

Same idea, LLM-assisted: I wonder how many objections to LLM-assisted writing really stem from protecting the status that comes with relative eloquence. When everyone can express their ideas clearly, those who relied on polished prose as a differentiator lose that edge. The conversation shifts to the quality of the underlying ideas — and not everyone wants that scrutiny.

Same ideas. Same person. One reads better. Which version do you actually object to?

> LLMs are a cancer on human thought and expression.

LLMs help to express what many people dont have the energy or ability to express. It also has a broader scoped view of protocol...It does not have emotions, which often leads to less than optimal discourse.

In many ways, it help those who are challenged in discourse to better express themselves...rather than keeping silent or being misunderstood.

The runtime state logging approach makes sense for browser automation — that's a domain where ground truth literally lives outside your repo. We have a similar dynamic with email state in corky (IMAP sync, draft queues). Same pattern: log the external state separately and let the document reference it.

On concurrent editing — it's handled at two levels:

*Ownership:* Each document is claimed by one tmux pane (one agent session). The routing layer prevents two agents from working the same doc simultaneously.

*3-way merge:* If I edit the document while the agent is mid-response, agent-doc detects the change on write-back and runs `git merge-file --diff3` — baseline (pre-commit), agent response, and my concurrent edits all merge. Non-overlapping changes merge cleanly; overlapping changes get conflict markers. Nothing is silently dropped.

The pre-submit git commit is the key — it creates an immutable baseline before the agent touches anything, so there's always a clean reference point for the merge.

Agent loops also enables the "hard discipline" of making sure all of the tests are written, documentation is up to date, specs are explicitly documented, etc. Stuff that often gets dropped/deprioritized due to time pressure & exhaustion. Gains from automation applies to greenfield & complex legacy projects.

I am now releasing software for projects that have spent years on the back-burner. From my perspective, agent loops have been a success. It makes the impractical pipe-dream doable.

It's part of the messianic end-times fervor that has been with America since the beginning...which is useful for imperial management...As it provides a constant source of existential judgement and dread...that religious/quasi-religious administrators can exploit.

When Science replaced Religion...Science took the place of Religion...

Kayfaybe...Donald Trump worked with WWE for a reason...

I think you will mostly get "the west is the best" over here. And "look at those evil authoritarians over there"....Enjoy your "freedom" to participate in the culture wars digital serf...while the standard of living, personal autonomy, wealth, & health may be on the decline...of yours & your loved ones. At least we have many of each other to blame...while a few profit.

Well, the last couple sentences is me paraphrasing. But one thing that many in the West boast about is the ability to criticize the systems to improve said systems. Let's see if actions match the rhetoric.