Posts tagged: agentic

🌱 This post is still growing Late last year I started writing I'm Out On Agents. Agents sucked, the models were good, but there was still something missing between the harnesses and the models. They could write good code, they could do some debugging and exploring, but they were too good at fucking up the whole project to be useful. They could crank out Green Field POC’s like nobody’s business, but they created so much mess in brown field projects that it was easier to chat and edit yourself. The Inflection Point # It’s very well agreed on that the inflection point for most people happened with Anthropic Opus 4.5 in late Nov 2025. Early adopters probably noticed right away and shouted from the rooftops how good it was. But we’ve all heard that developers have 6 months before ai writes all the code for years, so this felt like the rest of the noise. Hitting the December slowdown many of us hit code freezes at work. We completely disconnect from work for the last Week and come back in Ja…

Are developers really running 5 agents in parallel? How the Heck do they keep up with the changes? This seems Impossible. I was listening to Syntax.fm this morning and heard this question, and thought I’d throw in my take, which is probably pretty similar to Wes and Scott’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBQI9So5lM&list=PLLnpHn493BHHNUfHN5lDf11UD8jQ5Bpzl&index=1&t=99s Yes # Yes, developers are running 5 agents in parallel. It’s not that hard it requires you to shift from thinking about the weeds and seeing the forest see: Pm Not Babysitter. It requires effort and diligence. Most importantly it requires planning, it requires agents, it requires tooling. Is anyone doing this all day? Probably not. At least not outside of the startup companies that are building out tools to do this. Yes there are some, there’s always outliers, but its going to be rare. To have multiple agents running in parallel add day you need a lot of tokens, access to good models, and right now a low to medium risk…

It’s the start of 2026 and agents are getting a lot better than they were. I’m using opencode at home, free mode with Zen and big pickle. At work I have access to a wider variety of models including what seems to be the gold standard 3 from anthropic opus, sonnet, haiku. Note I’ve sat on this post for over a month, refactored it a few times, things feel like they are moving so fast that its hard to keep my feelings straight. Things are changing # Around Aug 2025 I wrote I'm Out On Agents. I saw others in the space having such great success I gave it a solid shot, but found it to egregious edit more than I asked, make massive unneeded changes, and make more small bugs hidden in the details than was worth it. This was just after the tipping point where not just hype bros were making the switch, but people I work with, people I trust and have made really good Software in their career. People like the creator of Flask Armin Ronacher. People who are really good at writing code and do not ne…

Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing agents. I will fully concede to I’m not doing it right, or a future state gets better than where we are right now, but right now they kinda suck. Transparency I’m sitting offline right now as I write this, These are my feels, no research, no links, no ai, just vibes. Chat # Chat is what really kicked off ai uses and goes back as old as computers, but it always sucked. Then chatgpt rocked the world with the biggest launch day in history and showed us that it could actually be pretty good. Unethically trained on everything they could get their hands on, burning cities worth of electricity to train, and keep training to stay ahead of the competition. It does a damn good job. There are tells, and if you see enough of it there is a lot that turns to slop, but if you had never seen it before, there is no way you would assume that it was not a com…