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by jgalt212 18 days ago
> It's not really news, though. Programming as Theory Building (Peter Naur) was published in the 80s, I think?

The news is that Agentic Programming has made this always challenging task even more challenging.

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Challenging. Adventurous. And tiring.

It’s global madness fired up by continuous stream of news from LLM providers. It’s like The Verge that is almost about FAANG only, but multiplied as it is “magic” for most people, as vibe coding is “so easy” and dopamine-producing activity that it is similar to runners that don’t want to stop as it stimulates them (and in this case ofc it is healthy :)

I knew a runner that was wearing his body down. His joints where giving up. I predicted he would become a cripple. He wouldn’t stop running despite knowing. He was addicted. Some stories about prompting agents feel like that to me.