What I notice

AI writes more code in an hour than I can read in a day. When I watch the volume grow, I feel pressure. Other people seem to ship more. I feel I should add more tools, more agents and more lines.

I wrote this from my own notes. I have not checked them against a study or a talk. They describe what I see in my own work.

Three feelings behind the hype

Code carries the feelings of the person who wrote it. Three feelings sit behind the hype.

Code written in a hype cycle carries desperation and fear of missing out. I wrote it fast because I thought I would fall behind. I cannot tell you why it works, so I do not trust it. Nobody else trusts it either.

The third feeling is overwhelm. There is so much to do, so many tools to learn and so much new code to read, that I end up doing nothing. I think this feeling is one cause of the hype, not only a result of it. It pushes people to chase the next thing because finishing a small thing feels pointless next to the pile. I have not checked that.…