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No I'm not, but not because I don't want to. To safely use an AI agent, it needs a ton of safety guardrails that (afaict) are difficult to set up. A lot of the safety guardrails we need don't even exist yet.

I'm working on all that currently. Trying to set up local systems to do practical and secure orchestrated AI work, without over-reliance on proprietary systems and platforms. Turns out it's a buttload of work. Yegge's own project (Gas Town) is a real world attempt to build just the agent part, and still many more parts are needed. It's so complicated, I don't think any open source solution is going to become dominant, because there's too much to integrate. The company that perfects this is going to be the next GitHub and Heroku rolled into one.

I get why people question all this. It's a completely different way of working that flies in the face of every best practice and common-sense lesson you learn as a software developer. But once you wrap your head around it, it makes total sense. You don't need to read code to know a system works and is reliable. You don't need to manually inspect the quality of things if there's other ways to establish trust. Work gets done a lot faster with automation, ironically with fewer errors. You can use cutting-edge technology to improve safety and performance, and ship faster.

These aren't crazy hypothetical ideals - what I just described is modern auto manufacturing. If it's safe enough for a car, it's safe enough for a web app.