We all fell for it…

Take a shot every time theo glazes himself

In this video: Theo's skills are so good he's suffering from success.

this guy definitely has his alter ego working in some Lumon office

You know whats not a trap? Obsidian

Theo, thank you so much for going through my article and opening up this discussion. This was exactly what I hoped would happen when I wrote it! Obviously there's always a lot of nuance to be had, but it seems we share a lot of the same core viewpoints. I agree with a lot of your feedback, as well as disagree of course (e.g. vendor lock-in was the closest term I could find, perhaps I should have called it "tool reliance"). The main thing I wanted to bring attention to is that friction is necessary for building (and maintaining) the skills that create the experts of today & tomorrow. These agentic tools circumvent that friction, creating a loop of reliance, which is distinctly different than an "abstraction". And while there's a small top percentage of highly experienced developers like ourselves that can avoid that trap, what does it mean for the other 80+%? And, are we completely certain that we're ALSO immune from this trap, especially as the years go by? I'm not confident that we are, and I'm advocating that we be mindful of this. Otherwise, even with some deviations, we seem to share a similar workflow. I really like your "why not both?" argument, and I'll need to sit with that. In my experience, there usually isn't such a thing as a free lunch. Speed, quality or cost...you can only pick two (as the adage goes). If we're going fast and doing better work, then what is the price we're paying?

They arent writing 50k loc. They are doing 50k lines of changes, including md docs etc

I just printed 50,000 pieces of paper in a day. Absolute insane gains.

Hey Gemini, Summarize the video in a minute, leave out the self-glazing, no mistake!

LLMs have glazed him so much that he believed it

Autofellatio