Readit NewsThese communities died because experienced developers wanted to talk about product and emerging capabilities. People entering web development just wanted to just talk about frameworks and trends. The experienced people stopped contributing once everything becomes about tool literacy and conversations about framework literacy are boring to everyone so even the conversation killers would stop showing up once it’s apparent the scene is killed.
It's an endless stream of basic tool/library questions. Put me off reddit quite a bit.
But switching over to using coding agents we never did the same. Feels like building an eval set will be an important part of what engg orgs do going forward.
I got tired of setting individual allow lists for each CLI, hopefully now I can run them all in Yolo mode while fence does the centralized sandboxing.
But the actual experience with developing on VSCode with Dev Containers is not great. It's laggy and slow.
All said and done, that its even possible is remarkable. Maybe these all go into training the next Opus or Sonnet and we start getting models that can create efficient compilers from scratch. That would be something!