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Jeff Smith
@jeffsmith.tech

Back in the day, being a dev used to be like being Ludwig from that David Mitchell show. You should just pace and whiteboard and ponder until you solved the puzzle. And you felt really smart when you did. It was a big part of the appeal for a lot of us.

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Jeff Smith
@jeffsmith.tech

But with agentic coding, basically being a dev is just Starcraft with shittier graphics. You barely even notice all of the wins, because the model is solving all of the puzzles. You just wind up typing as fast as you can. It's pure video games.

Jeff Smith
@jeffsmith.tech

So, you don't feel like Ludwig when you're done. You just feel like you played as fast as you could but the game can still be played so much faster and there's probably a teenager in Korea who could mop the floor with you.