If you think Agentic AI coding is the road to zero- or minimal-effort code in vast quantities? You are, as previously discussed in various blogs here, in for a world of hurt. Law 0 most definitely applies. What you get may do what you want, but you will have no clue what exactly it does, or how it does it, or what to do if the AI apocalypse hits and you can't afford the tokens to fix it. You don't get brilliant, secure, pretty, apps for free. Or even just for the cost of the tokens.
Time and again we have seen how this holds people back from pursuing their core work. You are too busy trying to stop being bitten by swamp sharks that you didn’t notice how far you sunk into the creek and how close the water has come to drowning you.
If you are using almost any modern office tools you are likely using some form of […]
“Gobby turned a room of community voices into ranked, funder-ready evidence before we left the building.”
— Dr Jaclyn Harron, Lumen Edge Data Consulting
We have left the dystopian lands of "move fast and break stuff" to a procedurally generated island surrounded by sharks, with cannibalistic natives eating any code that disagrees while playing dice with corporate environments.
