Programming in the swamp
Umwelts, oozification and the changing experience of programming at the hands of AI.
The phenomenology agentic coding - Neon Vagabond
neonvagabond.xyzAI coding agents are important because they fundamentally alter what it is like to program. That is what this essay is about: not whether this transformation is good or bad for programmers as a labor bloc, or economically, or socially; not whether it makes us more or less productive in the odd Taylorist sense that seems prevelent whenever the subject pops up. What interests me and, I believe, should interest you about this whole enterprise, is the phenomenology of how this new human-machine asse...