Post #2115830

2026-04-14 18:40 UTC

@hazelweakly if this is true, and I'd argue it is, why are people in such a panic that agents write some code? It would seem these are the things to focus on for impact. I never started freaking out when Puppet started writing Apache httpd instead of using vi(1). I moved on to higher level concerns. Yet many people are in a frenzy because Claude wrote a for loop instead of them doing it by hand.

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@viq@social.hackerspace.pl 2026-04-14 19:55

@davemangot isn't that largely because those tools are marketed to high level managers as "you can pay us instead of having employees", and many are onboard with that message?

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@richlv@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 20:13

@davemangot @hazelweakly Because we as an industry and community take the technical skills for granted. Not from all members, not universally, not at magnificent levels. But we expect at least some thought for maintainability, some for security, some for in general not doing insane crap. So that's the base level upon which those additional skills build and deliver extra value.

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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 12:32

@davemangot nothing is context free. And the context is overshoot of 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. And as a generality, agentic code is an accelerant. It’s been developed by hyperscalers, who deploy it at hyperscale, and want to hyperscale it more. Nothing about that is sensible or resilient. People with skills are @hazelweakly

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