>AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
>There used to be a time when people sat down and talked about how they'd do something. Now they can just prompt an agent for a few hours and open a PR.
>The most tragic aspect of this way of working is that, to the untrained eye, it works.
>If you pull the branch and test it, you'll probably get something somewhat functional. So what do they do? They keep going. Again and again. Until the project reaches a point where no one knows how anything works.
Isn't this the opposite of failing faster, it lets people who would have never made it past the first few hurdles and give up get deep in and then the false hope that they can then prompt their way out of whatever mess resulting in deeper and deeper spaghetti.
> Now they can just prompt an agent for a few hours and open a PR.
Bruh..I haven't consistently sat at my computer for even a hour at a time to code for a decade..people spend that much time in Claude??
But now they can now move so fast that nobody has a realistic chance to stop them before the damage compounds. They get into a much deeper mess much faster.