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Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real pr

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

sibeliuss 2y ago
Sitting around, watching claude-code 'think', hitting y, hitting enter, adding a little prompt context, giving it hints, etc, day after day, hour after hour. So exciting.
alchemyzach 2y ago
This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good
- urbandw311er 2y ago
  This a million times over. Although demand for this layer of jobs will obviously be hugely squeezed in this future we are all discussing.
fifilura 2y ago
Me too! I get it that coding is like playing boardgames and that might be fun. But solving real problems (with the help of AI or whatever other tool is most appropriate, maybe and IDE or a degugger) is where I want to be!
vunderba 2y ago
You and literally everyone else. If ideas are "a dime a dozen", and the hard part (aka building the implementation) is trivially solved by LLMs then it won't be you competing against a handful of similar businesses, it'll be you against TEN THOUSAND. The ultimate end result of lowering the barrier to entry down to zero is that making money on bespoke software will be about as commercially viable as making money writing music.
- fifilura 2y ago
  Sounds like a win for humanity to me. Writing software was always that, automating yours or (more likely) someone else's job away.
Kiro 2y ago
No, I love it. It has made programming fun again and lets me focus on the creative parts. Really satisfying.

sibeliuss 2y ago

Sitting around, watching claude-code 'think', hitting y, hitting enter, adding a little prompt context, giving it hints, etc, day after day, hour after hour. So exciting.

alchemyzach 2y ago

This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good

urbandw311er 2y ago
This a million times over. Although demand for this layer of jobs will obviously be hugely squeezed in this future we are all discussing.

fifilura 2y ago

Me too! I get it that coding is like playing boardgames and that might be fun. But solving real problems (with the help of AI or whatever other tool is most appropriate, maybe and IDE or a degugger) is where I want to be!

vunderba 2y ago

You and literally everyone else. If ideas are "a dime a dozen", and the hard part (aka building the implementation) is trivially solved by LLMs then it won't be you competing against a handful of similar businesses, it'll be you against TEN THOUSAND. The ultimate end result of lowering the barrier to entry down to zero is that making money on bespoke software will be about as commercially viable as making money writing music.

fifilura 2y ago
Sounds like a win for humanity to me. Writing software was always that, automating yours or (more likely) someone else's job away.

Kiro 2y ago

No, I love it. It has made programming fun again and lets me focus on the creative parts. Really satisfying.