AI-assisted coding is no longer interesting because it can write code; it's interesting because it forces you to pick a philosophy of responsibility. The only philosophy that survives contact with real repositories, real maintainers, and real incentives.
So few days back I was presenting an agent based system at an evaluation panel, and the panelists were referring the whole AI agent design as a glorified function call. It got me thinking about the difference between functions and agents. Yeah maybe there is a similarity but the difference is a bit fundamental.
I hear tales of the old days when geeks spent their billable hours rambling through those classic HTML aesthetic dev-forums, stack-overflow and what-not to get their idea into a working code. But unfortunately I started...