🔗 The Eternal Sloptember

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model. Source: The Eternal Sloptember geohot is now ringing some alarm bells. This is just the latest in a series of the vibe turning on agents as a panacea. The Earendil works folks, now also the patreon of Pi have always been clanker-skeptic agent users. They are also doing some great work trying to both embrace but be rigorous on what works and what doesn’t in this world: The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem…