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title: "agents are never done"
description: "Agentic coding has this nice trick of letting you bang out a project in an afternoon, something complex that would have take some real time to implement, not..."
date: 2026-05-11
published: true
tags:
  - ping
template: blog
---


Agentic coding has this nice trick of letting you bang out a project in an
afternoon, something complex that would have take some real time to implement,
not just some rounding error that can slip right in between the jira board.
Then it will be perpetually never done.  There will always be bugs and thorns
rear their head up, new features no one ever thought of, and now no one really
has to think much about beyond having the idea.

This part of software engineering has always been here, its the root of the
never complete 200 side projects.  But now it feels like fuel has been poured
on the fire, like we can get more done than ever.  But we are tricking
ourselves, these projects will never be "done".  There's always more to add.
Without feeling any of the pain of implementing it yourself, why not just keep
adding new features forever.  This is the mentality that is crushing me right now.

It pulls at your token anxiety like crazy.  You look at the usage board and you
are almost cooked so you switch to mini models that cant really do much without
you responding yes every 30s, or your usage is still in the green with a day to
go so you are up till midnight trying to get your clanker to cook overnight on
a side project, but really the stuff that you can just think of off the top of
your head take 15 minutes max so you just keep checking in and adding a little
bit more.