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"We founded Entire on a single belief, human developers no longer write most of the code."

This isn't a belief. What do you actually believe about the future of software?

Let me put it this way. The premise of agents is that some combination of programming languages and programming tools suck so incredibly much that humans don't want to use them.

You're effectively betting that this problem can never be fixed. AI is a layer of kludges on top of the problem of bad programming tools. Haven't you ultimately made a rather cynical bet?

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Agents are such an amazing building tool, similar to how compilers and high-level languages were. It superchargers builders and that's why so much code is now being written (not always by humans.) The bottleneck was never typing, but to me, it's deciding what to build, verifying it's right, and keeping it all coherent, which is what we're rebuilding the forge around.

Spoken like a true AI zombie. 10/10 at reciting the official propaganda. But do you have any actual hard-won knowledge? Are you unique? Individual? Again I put this question: have you ANY idea what you BELIEVE???

Most code was never the interesting part, and we’ve been handing it off for 60 years. compilers took asm, gc took memory, ides took the grep. agents are the next hand-off, not a kludge over the last one.

I dont think it’s a bet that tools cant get better either. better languages and tools make agents better too, they’re not competing. if rust-level types and a great lsp make the agent 3x more reliable, great, we still need somewhere to put the result.

The problem that never got fixed isnt the language, its that the reasoning gets thrown away between the person and the artifact. commit messages were always bad, docs always rotted, “why is this here” was always answered by whoever remembered.

Agents just made that acute, because now theres no one who remembers. thats the bit we’re trying to fix. if a better language fixes it too, honestly id take that.

Sure seems like a kludge to me.

But it's not like I've ever heard an AI user talk about why.

You would have to care about human user experience to care that it is fundamentally broken.

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