Have You Taken The Agentic Pill Yet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Half of the conversations I'm having around software engineering lately is how are the people around you adopting agents. The other half is around doing more... Date: October 16, 2026 Half of the conversations I’m having around software engineering lately is how are the people around you adopting agents. The other half is around doing more with less. The ones I am closest to we probably hit the same inflection points at the same time and are really hitting our strides in our phycosis phase. It does not feel like we are early adopters it feels like we are just using the things that are ready, filling in the gaps when we need. We are probably a few months behind the twitter curve at any moment in time. Here I am really taking a look at this article <https://ghuntley.com/oh-fuck/> from Greg Huntley <https://ghuntley.com> 1 year and 10 months after he wrote it. At the time I would have thought this guy is insane, 10 months ago I would have thought he was insane. Image: An "oh fuck" moment in time — Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over seven years.

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An "oh fuck" moment in time Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over… Geoffrey Huntley · ghuntley.com And for those of you who cant read a 3 minute article I put some Hollow Knight behind it to help you focus. Image: An "oh fuck" moment in time · Geoffrey Huntley | Brainrot — Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over seven years. It's now 2025. Software assistants are now a core staple of my day-to-day An "oh fuck" moment in time · Geoffrey Huntley | Brainrot Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over... Brainrot · brainrot.waylonwalker.com When do you take the pill ───────────────────────── This whole journey I’ve seen folks like thePrimeagain say the shit is the same as it was 6 months ago if you skipped the ralph loop era you didnt miss anything. Idk when this stops, but this train is loaded with jet fuel and is set for the moon at breakneck speed whether you take the pill or not. We NEED some people who don’t ───────────────────────────── I will not argue this is for everyone. I’ll be the first to say I dont like it. I like solving problems with my brain. I like the way things used to be. The wins felt bigger, more incredible, more like you really did something special. These days the wins come so big and fast with no effort that I feel like I’m chasing the same high that is gone. It does not exist anymore. Ripping around the neighborhood doesn’t feel the same after you have taken an f1 car around. Without some people who dedicate their being to the resistance we will not have diverse thinking. No one to maintian places llms cant or wont. No one to be the sane voice in the room. I dont know where these people belong, but they are useful. If you are going to be this person you need to be the very top of your game and willing to fight for the job and argue why its important. Most business just want shit done ───────────────────────────────── The reality is that most jobs, the job is not writing code. It never was. Writing code by hand was just the only way to access the lowest leel, highest power, most customization possible. Yet we wrote languages that sacrificed user experience and system resources because it was easier and faster for the human to understand and maintain long term. These businesses did not hire you to write the best python, craft the most efficient pipeline, hand craft sql that the next guy wont hate. The business wanted you to detect when their machines are going to need maintenance, when to order parts, what the demand for your product is going to be in 30 days. They want someone to shake hands with the vp and confidently tell them that they are doing work that helps them run the business more efficiently than the last vp. Someone to shake hands with the guys that run the machines. Businesses outside of tech are moving slow ────────────────────────────────────────── Trust me everyone uses AI and has some idea of what it can do, but very few people LEAN on it hard. VERY few are using agents or even know what one is. We are still getting serious questions from people asking for the difference between a skill, an agent, a harness, etc. The way all of the tooling is describing these does not really help them much. So these non tech businesses are out of the loop. They aren’t going to correctly tell you what to do from the top. BUT They are about to start asking why Steve just shipped 3 new services, 1k prs, 250 jira tickets in the last month with only 15 minutes of downtime and Jim is only doing 15 tickets a month, yet a similar bug took him 6 hours to get fixed. So what’s this mean for those of us slinging code ───────────────────────────────────────────────── You need to be asking Is Your Org Ready For Agents </is-your-org-ready-for-agents/>? Yesterday. Your final efforts before you stop looking at the code alltogether need to be setting your self up for success. Makeing sure that you are doing all you can to stop bugs from going to prod, detecting them early and giving yourself the ability to fix the issues fast. This stuff did not work well a year ago, it needed a lot of babysitting. At least for most of us. API pricing is just funny money ─────────────────────────────── No one is paying api prices to write code, they are ALL subsidized subscriptions. I have no insight to what real large enterprises get as a break or lack there of but from what I read even for them its not full api price. For those of us doing side projects at home a $20 or $200 sub goes a long way. The $20 using the big models sparingly can go a long way and last through most peoples hobby hours. These things are getting good ───────────────────────────── Like I said before I think you could have really skipped a lot of steps of autocomplete, chat, agents, loops and still get in now, but it feels like this shit is about to be a fukin rocket that is going to be hard to catsh up to those who have been doing the reps. The same core skills are important ────────────────────────────────── Identifying blast radius, detecting when prod is down, how big the issue is and how to get it back up is more important than ever. These things are moving fast and can write better code than most of us. They make fewer mistakes than most of us, but they still just do what you ask them to and will implement your shitty idea that has no chance in working correctly if you push them hard enough. They Do Not automatically decide your architecture for you. They will not just start adding OTEL on their own. You need to identify that you are on the hook for this thing. It is your responsibility to keep it up and healthy. You need to take initiative to set up a robust infrastructure tha includes monitoring. Make thatbread ────────────── Those who can figure out how to leverage agents to get shit done with minimal downtime are about to be the bread winners here. Like it or not. You can argue ethics all you want, business wants results.