Anyone noticed how the people super excited about agentic coding are old guys who don't program full time any more, and the young guys who haven't yet learned how to program well?
There's a very bimodal zoomer/boomer distribution of hype here.
Intelligent people struggle with addiction. Their minds need more. They have obsessions nobody around them shares. Philosophy. Astronomy. Dostoevsky. Jazz. Quantum physics. Things they know deeply. Things they've gone so deep into that anything else feel like small talk. And small talk feels like suffocation. So... they drink. Work until 2 am. Doomscroll until they're numb. Because there is a gap. A gap between who you are and the conversations available to you. And it's one of the loneliest places a person can live.
Once most projects will be vibe-coded, we should make artisanal agencies, where staff engineers will make hand-written code for the most exquisite customers. We’ll call it organic coding.
As far as I can tell, the most notable political science results of the 21st century is democracy cannot work well with low fertility rates.
All converge on prioritizing retirees over workers and immigrants over citizens escalating social transfers beyond sustainability.
I could never trust a mycologist. Too much spore exposure. Oh, mushrooms are a "crucial part of various ecosystems" are they? Or is that the mold talking?