Human requests are binary: fix this thing, answer this question. But agents operate in probabilistic space, spawning subprocess after subprocess, each one justified by some internal logic tree I never asked for. The billing model assumes perfect alignment between what I want and what the machine thinks I need. Spoiler: there isn’t any.

Claude 4 as image critic.

Blink, and the entire AI landscape could shift

The AI developer tooling market is moving faster than ever, with big players acquiring startups and releasing powerful coding agents. Interfaces are becoming commoditized, token economics will drive cost efficiency, spec-driven workflows prevail, memory persistence is key, and incumbents' flywheel grows stronger.

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Apparently, @timoreilly considered it noteworthy to highlight that I agree with @KentBeck 🤷‍♂️ honored and humbled!

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