Yeah, I think engineering orgs mostly jumped the shark.

Metrics like pr count and commits have always been terrible gauges for success compared to business performance.

But they're easy to measure, and even easier to game now with AI.

So we're seeing an outrageous gain on these metrics, and they've become almost completely divorced from business results.

No one cares how fast you ship prs. They care that you offer a compelling product, that works when they need it work, for a price they're able and willing to pay.

It's like we've decided to measure how far we've traveled in gallons of gas burned, but completely forgotten about measuring miles per gallon.

> but why would I want to run more agents?

Notice how difficult it is to turn off photo bursts in iPhone? Because that free cloud space needs to be filled fast. So ask your question again and you will find the answer very rapidly. They even gave it a cool name, "tokenmaxxing" what even the fuck.

I find that ride hailing is both cheaper and more plentiful compared to taxis in 2010. Even in non-inflation-adjusted amounts. Ride hailing and food delivery companies provide dispatching and coordination at a very large scale effectively.

I agree that these companies' products were fully mature prior to usable coding agents in late 2025, so I don't understand why they would require a large volume of code changes beyond minor promotions and localization enhancements. I would expect their challenges to be in the ML, data, storage, capacity, and compute infrastructure areas.

Uh-huh. I have a little boy who just saw his first firetruck, and you can see the wheels turning in his head, because BIG RED TRUCK. He doesn't talk yet, but a seed has been planted.

Some people operate like little boys. They want the BIG RED TRUCK. They haven't considered that's it's really hard to park and gets 5MPG, or that their use cases don't involve fighting fires (for which they are not trained), but they want the big red truck so they can drive the big red truck.

Anyway, if you go the 5000 microservices route, you move all your problems from the application layer into networking and orchestration problems. Best of luck with that.

> OK, but why would I want to run more agents? So I can be more productive? What does this productivity lead to?

software used outside of nerd niches? photoshop, canva, clickup, after effects and unreal engine over feh, imagemagick, impressive, emacs org mode, ffmpeg CLI and pico-8?

Thank you. I do not believe the author has any idea what he is talking about, too. It's worth to also mention some basics:

    1. Dependency on some outsourced LLM vendors (no Internet? No API response? Welp, you do you.);
    2. Undefined amount of payments/paid subscriptions at vendors;
    3. Undefined amount of tokens burnt on each prompt/iteration within undisclosed algorithms;
    4. Absolutely no responsibility/copyright for the LLM output;
    5. Privacy concerns on inside/company project source code uploaded;
    6. Incremental eventual atrophy of developer's own skills;
    7. Inhuman attitude for art, development, effort, purpose in general, since the models are built on stolen effort of other, now unknown, people...

My ex boss who was very very pro AI would constantly say that we need to be more productive. Which triggered in me the question of "why". Aren't we producing enough as a society at this point? We have enough for everyone, and the fact that it's not being shared fairly has nothing to do with productivity. We don't need "more", we need " better". And I don't think most uses of AI will lead to that. If we lived in a more just society I think we would concentrate all the AI resources on a few key areas where it could genuinely help make things better, like medical research. We don't need more and more crud apps.