In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. I’ll first cover some of the drive behind AI assistant adoption in software, the stochastic-looking divide in expectations and satisfactions with these tools, and the desire to figure out an explanatio...
