#developerexperience

"When you stop using the agent, all the productivity benefit goes away... but the added maintenance costs don't! As long as that code's still around, you're stuck with lower productivity than if you had never touched the agent at all."

"It's like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they'd all stopped showing pictures of the tables they'd created and just started posting about the hammer they were using."

"There is no way we win this fight with manual code reviews."

"Speed is dangerous without brakes. Make risk a blocking function. If the risk is unknown or unmitigated, the line stops. Do not hide danger in a report; encode it as a gate."

"Aim to reduce the complexity of the generated code where possible. Each avoidable line of code is costing energy, money and probability of future unsuccessful AI tasks."

"Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn't deviate from."

"In 2000 a coworker took me aside and showed me his brand-new copy of IntelliJ IDE. 'It's over for us,' he said, 'this thing makes it so programmers aren't strictly necessary, like one person can operate this tool and they can lay the rest of us off.'"