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tired: reviewing code wired: looking at slide shows and demos agent made

No pull requests, no code review. We push to main. Our agents read production logs, watch deploys, grant feature flags, and check their own work end to end. Here's how we do that:

This blew up beyond anything I expected. The responses are surprising too: 40% says that, duh, this is already the reality at my job. Yes, at mine too. Another 40% agrees with some adjustments and different timelines. Then 20% disagree. Of those that disagree, some, of course, call me an idiot and that I only build CRUD apps and so on. Not surprising, it's the Internet after all. But there are two other categories of criticism that I find fascinating. One is that people say I work on AI and that is why I would predict AI to take over. The shovel seller says you should dig, is the criticism. I get it. But in my case they have the causality backwards: I work on agents, and have done so for nearly two years now, because I thought and still think that this is the biggest lever for developer productivity I've seen in my career. I'm talking about shovels and am in the shovel business because I think everyone should have one, not the other way around. The other critique is... strange, somewhat: people get offended by the predictions I shared here and get mad at me as if these were not predictions but wishes. Listen: I do not wish for anyone to be priced out of building software when I predict that some people will be. The weatherman doesn't want it to rain when he says there's gonna be showers on Tuesday. I'm merely predicting what I think will happen. I didn't say it's good or bad. I didn't say PMs shouldn't exist or Italian shoemakers. I'm making a prediction on what I think is going to happen, that's different from wishing what will happen. That being said: I wasn't always delighted about how things were going. I loved typing out code (I'm faster than you, pal), I loved debugging by hand, I loved my editor and my shell and my color themes. And AI and agents took a lot of that away from me. But I also hate being inefficient and 1.5yrs ago it became pretty clear to me that to continue writing code by hand will be inefficient and a waste of time. So I adapted. And now, with the latest generation of models, I'm having a ton of fun again: Fabel and Astra let me do things I never would've done by hand and now they also do the shitty parts and don't leave me to do the remaining shitty 10% to get it shipped. I'm excited and optimistic and think there's a ton of stuff to build and now we have superpowers that let us build more, faster; superpowers that truly let us shoot for the moon.