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Now imagine what people back in the day thought about going from assembly to C. Or C to Java. Or, forgive me for even saying it, Java to Python.

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It was still the human writing the code. In the last several years it's become the human writing the prompt, which has led to agentic development, and the next step seems to be removing the human from managing the agents.

I'm sorry but I am just so tired of hearing this lazy logic. A C compiler is largely a 1:1, deterministic pattern matcher. I type X, I can be reasonably sure compiler will do Y.

An agent is not at all like this. The freaks who made this disingenuous machine don't even know how or why it does half the stuff it does. We're all just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. Absolute nonsense take my man, I'm sorry.

I mean, it's a little like that. If I ask for a Todo app, it's not going to make me a chess game or rm -rf my files instead.

There is a huge difference between mathematical determinism and "it looks like that thing I said." Even the laziest, most superficial analysis must conclude these two things are not the same just because they have vaguely the same shaped shadow.

There's also a huge difference between formalizing your problem in a set of strict rules that take a lifetime to master and saying "make me a todo app, make no mistakes".

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