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“I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program…” (geohot.github.io)
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

In tech leadership. I don't have to push it. My talented engineers took to it immediately.

They learned quickly that it is a tool. Instead of using a shovel and a wheelbarrow, they have a backhoe now. If you don't know how to dig a hole, the backhoe is just a way to make a mess faster. It doesn't replace intelligence.

They can use it to do the scutwork while they focus on the important stuff.

The duds are still typing shit into spreadsheets and emailing them as attachments while their coworkers are getting stuff done.

It is a tool. You can learn to use it or you can just be mad that it exists. In either case it isn't going away. Like the telephone, the car, the computer, the internet, it is here to stay.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

If you’re letting your engineers find uses for it instead of constantly demanding that they generate lengthy “user stories” and decision documents and deferring thinking to agents instead of quickly planning stuff out using their experience then you’re probably quite an outlier by now.