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Here’s something I’ve been wrestling with lately. I keep hearing people come to the realization that they never liked coding, they thought they did, but secretly hated it the whole time. I dont think I’ve ever kidded myself about this. I like building things. I like having an idea and see it come to life. Just because I like the end product more, and that coding really was a means to an end, something I will never do again in the same capacity that I have in the past, does not mean I did not enjoy the art of solving problems by typing syntax into a file to tell a computer how to solve a problem.

The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now, I’m writing less code, and I kinda just don’t care as much about the small open source stuff as I used to. I enjoy reading about what other people are thinking, doing, creating. But when I go to grab a podcast while I wait on my clankers its one talking about how other people are using them, how to make them more secure, more effective, how the new models change things, what models are good at what. It’s all so new and changes so fast. Any sort of new open source project starts out sus that it was just vibe coded anyways, So at the moment it feels like ooh how did you get that, how do I make mine, and that the thing itself has less value. I hate that its this way, but it is.

AI is moving so fast this year its hard to keep up, I’ve written 3 or 4 versions of one blog post to replace I'm Out On Agents, but it feels like everything changes before I can get it out.

What you don’t have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet. I saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and they keep going back to opus. For me its been working great, I have it working on critical infrastructure work, that I will need to maintain. I appreciate its accuracy and completeness. And honestly I’m rarely watching agents run. Its like watching paint dry at this point. Its interesting to read their thinking prompts, but not productive work. While its running I’m teeing up the net prompt. Working with another set of agents to write a set of issues for the next epic. I might be too privileged though. I own a whole platform and have plenty of autonomy to work on what I see fit for the day. I don’t have a boss breathing down my neck waiting for a single ticket to be complete. I’m working on 6 projects at a time. I’m taking walks to avoid becoming a burnt out zombie. I’m definitely not complaining about it kicking out massive amounts of code too slow though.

In November 2025 everyones beard lost its color, we aged into the next generation without realizing it. If you were getting paid to write code at this point in time, you are part of a special point in history where we used to write code by hand. There will be systems air gapped systems somewhere devs will continue to do it how we’ve always done it, some day they will peek out of this cave and realize that they are the only ones left, no one else remembers what its like. Writing code will quickly become a hobby that people do, in a weird niche way. Not because you want to build something, but like the guy with a mainframe in his garage that likes to watch the lights blink. Because its nostalgic, it’s a very cool skill, its fun and rewarding, but it won’t be to get something done.

I spent all day grinding on a 20 minute fix. I want the agents to do it. They can do it, but they are missing the harnesses they need to replicate my workflows of old.

I was today years old when I realized that the ghostty guy is the Hashicorp guy.