Comment by anonzzzies

I wish I got out more. I used to go a lot to meetups and sit next to people 'closer to the hype' showing me the cutting edge stuff; often it was just a 'meh' experience vs the 'this is like seeing god' type of comments on hn/reddit and sometimes it is an eye opener (rarely). The 'meh' is usually when people claim it is 10000x more productive: I sit next to them and seeing them struggle to get even the basics done; after that, they struggle with the same issues I do when I try it while they are the 'experts' and I learn that people call things productive when they are kept 'busy' not actually producing results faster.

Anyway:

> agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations,

give me extreme Emacs 'setup' feelings: I was at a meetup in hk recently where there was someone advocating this and it was just depressing; spending hours on stuff that changes daily while just my vanilla claude code with playwright mcp runs circles around it, even after it has been set up. It is just not better at all and until someone can show that it is actually an improvement WITH the caveat that when it is an improvement on t(1), it doesn't need a complete overhaul at t(n) where n is a few days or weeks just because the hype machine says so. This measured against a vanilla CC without any added tooling except maybe playwright mcp.

People just want to scam themselves in feeling useful: if the ai does the work, then you find some way of feeling busy by adding and finetuning stuff to feel useful.