setting goals

A lot of Web Development has changed almost overnight and I didn’t quite realise it was happening. When I started to write this post in August, there is a lot of discussion about loops, graphs, goals and autoresearch, with the general gist that you give your LLM and agent harness an objective or some endstate and your tools will keep iterating until the goals have been achieved. While I’ve been putting it to the test on a couple of projects, what I didn’t see coming was what happens when anyone can think of a goal and point it at some software. Clones, Remakes, Demakes, and reverse engineering have, to my mind, changed the web, and that cemented its value (until the Agent Harnesses become the host) - people can just whiff out a phrase and get a working product. Two examples of that: REA wires an agent into Ghidra, Hopper or IDA so it can inspect an app without its source, from native binaries down to websites; ArtCraft is seven open source Rust apps built with Claude against Adobe’s…