Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

Fine to read a fellow countryman on HN :) "Dere!" I have disabled my coding agent by default. I first try to think, plan, code something myself and only when I get stuck or the code gets repetitive, only then I tell him to do the stuff. But I get what you are saying, and I agree ... I am clearly pro human on this debate, and the low bloat trash everywhere is annoying. I have come to the conclusion - if you find docs on something, and it is plain HTML - it will be probably of high quality. If you find docs with a flashy, dynamic, effectful and unnecessary 100mb js booboo, then you what you are about to read ...

i just wish someone would explain why i prefer cline to claude code so much

Why is it that every single one of these think pieces feel terminally 3 months behind on the times?

It's not even the complexity which, you have to realize: many managers and business types think it's just fine to have code no one understands because AI will do it.

I don't agree, but bigger issue to me is many/most companies don't even know what they want or think about what the purpose is. So whereas in past devs coding something gave some throttle or sanity checks, now we'd just throw shit over wall even faster.

I'm seeing some LinkedIn lunatics brag about "my idea to production in an hour" and all I can think is: that is probably a terrible feature. No one I've worked with is that good or visionary where that speed even matters.

Eh I think its self-correcting problem

Companies will face the maintenance and availability consequences of these tools but it may take a while for the feedback loop to close

People always talk about velocity and speed debating slowing down and speeding up. But the wider tech industry hasn't solved any real problems in a decades, even in mobile things are pretty much the same. We are well into the optimization stage.

AI is the only growth industry of the last decade, and it's the only thing people talk about, we've been so long without growth that people are scared of it now.

I keep returning to this thought: Assuming our abstraction architecture is missing something fundamental, what is it?

My gut says something simple is missing that makes all of the difference.

One thought I had was that our problem lives between all the things taking something in and spitting something out. Perhaps 90% of the work writing a "function" should be to formally register it as taking in data type foo 1.54.32 and bar 4.5.2 then returning baz 42.0 The register will then tell you all the things you can make from baz 42.0 and the other data you have. A comment(?) above the function has a checksum that prevents anyone from changing it.

But perhaps the solution is something entirely different. Maybe we just need a good set of opcodes and have abstractions represent small groups of instructions that can be combined into larger groups until you have decent higher languages. With the only difference being that one can read what the abstraction actually does. The compiler can figure lots of things out but it wont do architecture.

I expected this to be yet another anti-AI rant, but the guy is actually right. You should guide the agents, and this is a full-time job where you have to think hard.

> While all of this is anecdotal, it sure feels like software has become a brittle mess

That may be the case where AI leaks into, but not every software developer uses or depends on AI. So not all software has become more brittle.

Personally I try to avoid any contact with software developers using AI. This may not be possible, but I don't want to waste my own time "interacting" with people who aren't really the ones writing code anymore.

Just looking at the LiteLLM disaster from yesterday and so much slop flowing around, I couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to slow the fuck down!

It's 2026, the "fuck" modifier for post titles by "thought leaders" has been done already ad nauseam. Time to retire it and give us all a break.

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hope my boss can see this

Oh look another anti AI article.

Oh they even swore in the title.

Oh and of course it's anti-economics and is probably going to hurt whoever actually follows it.

Three for three. It's not logical it's emotional.