Comment by tyyyy3
3 hours ago
Correct me if I’m wrong Simon, but weren’t you highly optimistic about llm’s and agentic-use of them?
I believe this is a common fault of not being able to zoom out and look at what trade offs are being made. There’s always trade-offs, the question is whether you can define them and then do the analysis to determine whether the result leaves you in a net benefit state.
I still am. I think setting up LLMs to call tools in a loop is a fascinating way to build interesting software that could not have existed before.
Coding agents are also upending how software development works, in a way that we are still very much figuring out.
I don't think anyone has a confident answer for how best to apply them yet, especially on larger production-ready projects.
I think you kind of answered this in the post though. "I want somebody to have used the thing" is dogfooding. and it's probably the only quality signal left that can't be generated in 30 minutes.