[PaulHoule]

Get over your FOMO:

   I walked into that room expecting to learn from people who were 
   further ahead. People who’d cracked the code on how to adopt AI at scale, 
   how to restructure teams around it, how to make it work. Some of the 
   sharpest minds in the software industry were sitting around those tables.

   And nobody has it all figured out.

People who say they have are trying to mess with your head.

[tcgv]

That’s fair at the “adopt AI at scale / restructure orgs” level. Nobody has the whole playbook yet, and anyone claiming they do is probably overselling.

But I’d separate that from the programmer-level reality: a lot is already figured out in the small. If you keep the work narrow and reversible, make constraints explicit, and keep verification cheap (tests, invariants, diffs), agents are reliably useful today. The uncertainty is less “does this work?” and more “how do we industrialize it without compounding risk and entropy?”

I wrote up that “calm adoption without FOMO, via delegation + constraints + verification” framing here, in case it helps the thread: https://thomasvilhena.com/2026/02/craftsmanship-coding-five-...

[PaulHoule]

I use agents all the time but I keep my feet on the ground. The thing is doing that you do not get the radical explosion in productivity that influencers want you think they are getting.