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They're not. But some of them are! And it comes down to knowing how to work with agents in the best way. A good developer -- all in on Agentic development or not -- still knows precisely where to review, pause, rewrite, spike, and so on and so forth. I just don't see the problem here.

It is hard to understand why one would want to introduce this into their codebase given how functional javascript is right away. It lives in the spectrum of rxjs - super powerful, but is it necessary? Can all of those concepts be distilled down into what you would use on the day to day (just a few), with less concept density, and just as much functional goodness?

I'm just about at 7 years! Best thing I ever did, but its an entirely different way of being.

I was one way when I was drinking, and i'm another way now. The times when I was drinking were good in a sense, kinda like the author mentions, but after giving it up all of my anxiety vanished, and I noticed (after a few years sober) that I felt almost like my childhood self, which was/is still astonishing to me in the best of ways.

A lot of things had to be sacrificed however. My life is vastly more boring, and I honestly have no interest in socializing, unless it is with family or really close long-term friends. And I used to have a LOT of fun going out, meeting new people, getting in trouble / crazy situations, all of it. Like a totally different person.

But it is all worth it -- my kid has never once had to deal with me having a hangover, and all the baggage that that comes with. And all the fights my partner and I used to get in? Gone. Best thing I ever did, even thought it was extremely hard in the beginning.

I am very curious about this as well, as an IC. I have not written code by hand for almost two years now and have produced a mountain of Python code over the past year (well architected, using all of my experience in other languages to support good judgement). However, Python is new to me -- I've never hand written a line.

This is all fine and good at my current job, but were I to ever go back on the market. What an uncomfortable conversation!

How does one approach this weird state we're in?

This is how I feel completely, having also grown up online all the way from BBSs onwards. I literally don't even have websites to visit any more. I get on my computer, scan hacker news for a bit, check twitter for a few minutes, scan some world news site, and thats it.

I still spend a lot of time programming (and thus a lot of time on the computer) but other than that, absolutely nothing appeals. Its a wasteland in my mind.

You are fighting a good fight! Props.

4.6 is the last great model from Anthropic. If one isn't greedy and hype-driven, the benefits are clear.

I have utterly abandoned Anthropic as a customer because of these writing style / behavior changes. It is insufferably bad, and it is impacting code quality.

Switched over to Codex 5.6, and dude, we are BACK.

All of his books are highly recommended -- and the further you get away from the ones about dolphins the better.

Absolutely terrible AI writing. Do not read.

Every day I witness the crazy wonder that is network knowledge / devops + agents from my colleagues. Things that were not possible become possible, assuming deep expertise. I feel for mathematicians like the author, but it will pass once the more creative possibilities reveal themselves and the shock passes.

4.6 is night and day better. It was before the big language switch up. Terrible direction that Anthropic has taken this.

You're just getting older and realizing something about yourself. The only way to preserve your attention is to guard it like a jewel. It is a learned behavior once you enter the real world.

In my opinion he nailed the timeline. It just needed to take off, and it is.

McKenna to Alex Jones? That is an offensively bad comparison for someone as philosophically astute and well-rounded as he was.

And tripping to a fever dream... You know, sometimes it's best to just not respond if you know nothing about a subject at all.