Comment by siva7

Comment by siva7 10 hours ago

This is the most important observation. I'm getting so many workshop invitations from my corporate colleagues about AI and agents. What most people don't get that these clever patterns they "invented" will be obsolete next week. This nice company blog about agents - one which got viral recently - will be obsolete next month. It's hard to swallow for my colleagues that in these age - like when you studied gang of four or a software architecture pattern book that you have learned a common language - no, these days the half-life of a pattern for AI is about a week. Even when you ask 10 professionals what an agent actually is - you will get 10 different answers yet they assume that how they use it is the common understanding.

Vinnl 8 hours ago

This is also why it's perfectly fine to wait out this AI hype and see what sticks afterward. It probably won't cost too much time to catch up, because at that point everyone who knows what they're doing only learned that a month or two ago anyway.

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lowbloodsugar 7 hours ago

Counterpoint to these two posts: a journeyman used to have to make his own tools. He could easily have bought them, or his master could have made them. Making your own tools gives you vastly greater skills when using the tools. So I know how fast AI agents and model APIs are evolving, but I’m writing them anyway. Every break in my career has been someone telling me it’s impossible and then me doing it anyway. If you use an agent framework, you really have no idea how artificially constrained you. You’re so constrained, and yet you are oblivious to it.

On the “wasting three months” remark (GP), if it’s a key value proposition, just do it. Don’t wait. If it’s not a key value prop, then don’t do it at all. Often times what I’ve built has been better tailored to our product than what AWS built.

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hammock 3 hours ago

You can make your own hand plane, and you will be a better woodworker for it. Still in a few months your competition will be using a electric planes and routers

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- DrewADesign 2 hours ago
  
  The cult of efficiency aims to turn craftsmanship into something that only concerns hobbyists. Everything else is optimizing money in vs money out to get as close to possible as revenue being directly deposited into shareholders bank accounts.
  
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hibikir 10 hours ago

Note that even many of those "long knowledge" things people learned are today obsolete, but people that follow them just haven't figured it out yet. See how many of those object oriented design patters just look very silly the minute you use immutable data structures, and have access to functional programming constructs in your language. And nowadays most do. Many seminal books on how to program in the early 2000s, especially those covering "pure" OO, look quite silly today.

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