[ontouchstart]

> Although there is an element of apparent sloppiness in many creative people, discipline is also required. (Note that time-sharing has been condemned by some as encouraging sloppiness, as opposed to batch processing [where sloppiness can be exceedingly costly in time and computing resources]. Perhaps time-sharing could actually encourage creativity, although there is the countering argument that computers intrinsically stifle creativity.) Similarly, diversity of experience also appears to be extremely important (e.g., [Sheppard]); the perspective afforded by familiarity with a variety of systems, subsystems, programming languages, and methodologies provides extremely valuable insights, especially where there is wide diversity (e.g., among TOPS-20, Multics, UNIX, and OS/370; SCRIBE, TEX, PUB and ROFF; Pascal-based languages and LISP; a formal methodology/specification language and conventional design).

I will think “Agentic Engineering” is the “time-sharing” of our time. Embrace it.

[jabwd]

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, legal, financial, environmental issues then yeah you could embrace it I suppose.

[ontouchstart]

By "embracing" I mean embracing the coming storm and survive it, facing the challenge and admit it is not magically going away.