Agentic coding is burning me out

dickeeT

imo, Agentic lower the bar for people to actually create software they want, however it also introduce or scale problem for devs, since is inevitable for them to use it

MisterTea

Agent coding hype is marketing to push FOMO on devs in order to trick them into turning off their brain in exchange for money. They get hooked at work where they are likely more than happy to let a machine barf out boring code they likely didn't want to write in the first place. Then they bring that practice home. It's digital crack for devs.

adampunk

They were so burned out that they decided to use an LLM to write this blog post. It should be embarrassing to people that they can’t even write a whole argument out by hand. It’s not that hard. All you have to do is believe in it. This blog post is just selling the idea of engineering as craft. It exists to make us feel good about having skills and to get us to regurgitate our priors in the comments. We should at least demand that the sales pitch be manual.

cyanydeez

Easiest way to keep yourself from overload is get yourself a local model. At 128GB in Mac Studio or AMD395+ and it's large enough to get the sweet context window, but slow enough that you can either process what it's doing or focus on something requiring more careful work. It's still hard to stop yourself from constant bikesheding, reorganizing, etc, but yeah, mentally it's a different bag of tricks you need to learn.