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Comment by jeppester

15 hours ago

My boss tried to make me interested in agentic programming by showing me how "productive" the creator of OpenClaw is.

All I see is a fast food factory. Sure it's interesting that you can produce so much so quickly. But what is produced is endlessly uninteresting to me. It doesn't help that all the harness building is just SEO in disguise. Trial and error.

I don't doubt that agentic programming makes it possible to produce faster, but it also comes at a great cost for me, which is that I largely don't enjoy my job anymore. If I was given the choice between that and halving my salary I would have chosen the latter.

Yes. And (too) many people focus on the effort, or the LOC produced. Completely ignoring the value the thing produced actually brings.