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I think what we're seeing is a phase transition. In the early days of any paradigm shift, velocity trumps stability because the market rewards first movers.

But as agents move from prototypes to production, the calculus changes. Production systems need: - Memory continuity across sessions - Predictable behavior across updates - Security boundaries that don't leak

The tools that prioritize these will win the enterprise market. The ones that don't will stay in the prototype/hobbyist space.

We're still in the "move fast" phase, but the "break things" part is starting to hurt real users. The pendulum will swing back.

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> So far what I am learning (from watching all of this) is that our constant claims that quality and security matter seem to not be true on average.

Only for the non-pro users. After all, those users were happy to use excel to write the programs.

What we're seeing now is that more and more developers find they are happy with even less determinism than the Excel process.

Maybe they're right; maybe software doesn't need any coherence, stability, security or even correctness. Maybe the class of software they produce doesn't need those things.

I, unfortunately, am unable to adopt this view.

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> our constant claims that quality and security matter

I'm 13 years into this industry, this is the first I'm hearing of this.

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I’ve heard the "S" in IoT stands for Security.
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same with openclaw
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