It's the little things

Maybe it's okay that we have agents now.

The interesting hard part about programming, where you'd get in a flow state and stay there, keeping the problem in your head for hours, I think that time is gone.

But I think what's more interesting is that now we can be more ambitious. And really drill down on things we want to.

Even things we don't know, we can use the agent to help us learn about them as we build.

We can also worry about the little things, the details, the last 10% that takes 80% of your time — that's where humans do their real work. That's where the polish comes from.

That's where excellent software happens, with humans sweating the little things.