#critique
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- Agentic Coding is a Trap Lars Faye on the supervision paradox — agent oversight requires the very skills that agent use erodes, plus vendor lock-in and token cost volatility
- Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out 0xsid on decision fatigue as the next invisible friction — gacha-loop psychology, broken pacing, and the verifier-of-the-verifier regress
- AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code Writing code used to force understanding it; with agents writing, understanding becomes a separate cost, and shipping the code still means owning it
- blog.andymasley.com Andy Masley's Substack — numerate critique of AI environmental panic, focused on water and data-center coverage; sober pro-AI on narrow technical points
- It Is Time To Build A New Internet mrmarket on abandoning the ad- and bot-polluted mainstream web for a small, high-friction, good-faith knowledge commons
- Let's talk about LLMs (Bennett) Bennett applies Brooks' No Silver Bullet to LLM coding — math caps upside, DORA/CircleCI show instability
- mrmarket bearblog writer on tech culture, founder brands, and the decay of the open internet
- Notes on Software Quality (Hobday) Hobday defines quality as absence of problems, six software signals, and argues quality can't survive scale
- PHK's last Bikeshed: the end of FOSS as we know it Poul-Henning Kamp's farewell ACM Queue column — LLM code review is a fad, but age verification, attestation, and EU accountability end BDFL-style FOSS
- Redis and the Cost of Ambition Leifer on Redis's feature-set inflation tracking each year's HN trend, the protocol second-system effects, and Valkey as the market's verdict
- Skill atrophy and the supervision paradox The circularity where agent oversight requires the critical-thinking and code-reading skills that heavy agent use measurably erodes
- Slow Software: The Case for High-latency Systems Development Irene Zhang argues critical infrastructure needs deliberate development friction now that AI decoupled importance from build time
- The AI water issue is fake Andy Masley's case that AI water use is not a national, local, or personal problem — with the numbers, the comparisons to other industries, and a critique of misleading news coverage
- The Peril of Laziness Lost Cantrill on why LLMs lack laziness — human time constraints drive simplicity, unchecked generation bloats
- The Rise of the Bullshittery Marius on a market that pays for performance over substance — Frankfurt's bullshit, LinkedIn grift, LLM-cheap content, Graeber's bullshit jobs, and the cost to careful work
- The World Has Moved On (Doctorow on lapsarianism) Doctorow's case that decay-everywhere is structural, not nostalgia — 50 years of dismantled antitrust, and the fix is political
- Vibe-coding a memory tool into a 130-year-old open problem Vibe-coding an agent memory tool whose contradiction checker ran into proposition identity — the open problem of when two sentences mean the same thing
- What The Fuck Happened To Nerds? mrmarket on tech leaders liquidating 40 years of product-nerd trust into personal fame, and the coming blowback