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Rigid implies you are trying to change something into something else in a controlled way. Eg a refactoring that does nothing but enable for a future feature. Agents does not change code to refactor anything, they write code to solve the new feature directly. And if you are good at prompting they might overwrite code that exist so that the end result looks like a refactoring. But no clay was reshaped.

Double the waste, double the fun!

"naturally"...

So you are saying that there's a widespread problem with people looking to buy a car for $100k but realizing there's a $6k tax they go, "I can't afford that" and instead buy a unsafe truck?

I lost the link to that short story about humans in the future whose job it is to read and interpret Ai output like it's aliens. Good story! Anyone have the link?

That sounds nice, care to share the breathing exercise?

A recent thing that caused a perspective shift for me was identifying where my drive was coming from. Triggered by the difference between the etymologies of amateur (one who loves) vs connoisseur (one who knows).

Amateur - learns construction on free time ad hoc/by doing, builds a cabin, enjoys living in it

Connoisseur - reads lots of books on construction, might build a cabin to verify competence, enjoys thinking about it

Professional - went to school and works in construction, enjoys the paycheck, doesn't have a cabin

I haven't read the motorcycle zen book yet, but I imagine that is the loving amateur angle, whereas for me I just thrive in knowledge. Translating that to the current AI hellscape, I kinda like that the code crafting bit is a bit less pronounced where I can instead focus on getting to know the system/model/domain of my work. It helps with the dystopian feelings I sometimes get from being in the mine. But if you are a passionate coder, I would imagine that letting someone else build your cabin would be extremely provoking.

Thank you for this post.

My feeling? I ask myself the same question as I do for for everything nowadays. Yeah this might be ai slop, but is it good ai slop? If it's good, like this, I feel good. If it's bad, I feel bad.

Human effort as a proxy for quality... that ship has sailed. And that makes me feel frustrated.

What was the 'don't read the summaries' book?

But they're reading multiple words overlayed on the 30 second video! And they sometimes write "wtf stupd g* n* lol" as a comment! That gotta count!?!

Well I sure hope that the gemini developers don't have access to agentic development tools because they might read this comment, build the multi slide editing feature using 450M tokens and ship it yesterday removing that Claude edge forever.

People complain about all things all the time (rightfully) but I'm not gonna complain about your complaints now, I will only add that I sometimes enjoy humor full of "shock" and profanity. Still! , After decades of professionals and non-professionals diluting it. This site was funny. Ymmv

Lukewarm turkey.

Resistance to change is very different than reluctance of change.

Yeah I read it and didn't get the point. So agile is dead? And we are now doing waterfall due to Ai needing unambiguous specifications? But also agile was nothing new because they knew that waterfall didn't work in the 70s. But now it works? Or are we still doing iterative development but the term agile is banned as unoriginal?