I feel or have the fear that the world will tumble and crack under the sheer amount of code we produce and can’t be maintained because at one point no one human can understand all the stuff that was written.
At the moment though I also code on and off with an agent. I’m not ready or willing to only vibe code my projects. For one is the fact that I had tons of examples where the agent gaslighted me only to turn around at the last stage. And in some cases the code output was to result focused and didn’t think about the broader general usage. And sure that’s in part because I hold it wrong. Don’t specify 10million markdown files etc. But it’s a feedback loop system. If I don’t trust the results I don’t jump in deeper. And I feel a lot of developers have no issue with jumping ever deeper. Write MCPs now CLIs and describe projects with custom markdown files.
But I think we really need both camps. Otherwise we don’t move forward.
> I feel or have the fear that the world will tumble and crack under the sheer amount of code we produce and can’t be maintained because at one point no one human can understand all the stuff that was written.
IMO the best advice in life is try not to be fearful of things that happen to everyone and you can't change.
Good news! What you are afraid of will happen, but it'll happen to everyone all at once, and nothing you can do can change it.
So you no longer need to feel fear. You can skip right on over to resignation. (We have cookies, for we are cooked)
At the moment though I also code on and off with an agent. I’m not ready or willing to only vibe code my projects. For one is the fact that I had tons of examples where the agent gaslighted me only to turn around at the last stage. And in some cases the code output was to result focused and didn’t think about the broader general usage. And sure that’s in part because I hold it wrong. Don’t specify 10million markdown files etc. But it’s a feedback loop system. If I don’t trust the results I don’t jump in deeper. And I feel a lot of developers have no issue with jumping ever deeper. Write MCPs now CLIs and describe projects with custom markdown files. But I think we really need both camps. Otherwise we don’t move forward.