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by simoncion 137 days ago
It seems like every quarter or two, I hear a story just like yours (including the <<Wow! We've quietly passed an inflection point!>> part).

What does that tell me?

It tells me that I shouldn't waste my time with a tool that's going to fundamentally change in three to six months; that I should wait until I stop hearing stories like this for a good, long while. "But you're going to be left behind!", yeah, maybe. But. I've been primarily a maintenance programmer for a very long time. The "bleeding edge" is where I am very, very rarely... and it seems to work out fine.

New tools that are useful are nice. Switching to a radically different tool every quarter or two? Not nice. I've got shit to do.
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srdjanr 137 days ago
I don't see the interface changing much in 3-6 months, and definitely not fundamentally.

Sure, there will probably be some changes around MCP, skills, AGENTS.md and similar, but I don't see them as big changes, and you can use the tools now without those things.

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simoncion 135 days ago
> I don't see the interface changing much in 3-6 months, and definitely not fundamentally.

This is as insightful as a fellow noting that both a caulk gun and a shotgun have a fixed handle and movable trigger and genuinely wondering why an expert user of the former would ever have even a moment's trouble learning to use the latter.

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