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this has been my sort of big tent alignment with AI people. If I'm getting good CLI tooling that _actually works_ (or fixes to existing ones that have been busted forever) then I'm pretty happy.

Things that make systems more understandable to the LLMs ... usually make things more understandable for humans as well. Usually.

The biggest issue I've found is that vibed up tooling tends to be pretty bad at having the right kind of "sense" for what makes good CLI UX. So you still have awkward argument structures or naming. Better than nothing though

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Its like major cities repairing their roads to incentivize autonomous vehicles to operate there. Win win for everyone.
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Apart from pedestrians.
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It never made sense to me why cars and pedestrians need to share the same spaces. Why can't we have more efficient walking routes that are away from cars?
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if you have roads shared with pedestrians and cars (and bikes!) you can build denser cities.

I lived real downtown in Tokyo and my street was like "1.5" lanes wide (if cars were coming in both directions one basically needs to pull over and stop). I could just walk in the middle of the street. There was no sidewalk. No street parking of course. Cars would drive down at 15km/h or whatever, and slow to a crawl if people were in the street.

Straight lines are efficient walking routes, and ... well... that might involve just crossing the street directly! Every layer of grade separation gets in the way of that.

End result of all of this is less pavement to maintain, slower drivers (-> safer!), good walking and cycling conditions, etc etc etc.

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Because cars took over the streets from pedestrians between 1900 and 1930 and no one noticed.

Hopefully when petrol hits $10 a gallon in the next few months more of the world will think about banning cars from high density areas.

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Its already over $12 per gallon in Singapore. Let's see what happens.
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Any textbooks or resources on getting better at naming things?

The Programmers Brain book was my go to

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The Design of Everyday Things.
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The conclusion I drew from that book is that I shouldn't be naming things.
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I've been thinking the same thing lately. It's sorta frustrating that it required bots to force tech companies to make clean simple cli driven development workflows.
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It's wild that it took AI to get half the companies on the planet to actually add reasonably priced APIs to their products so I don't have to puppeteer every damn thing with a flakey harness.
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At the expense of no longer needing the human programmer...
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> Agents will allow human programmers to get what they've been begging for decades now: proper requirements and flexible, logical, tooling.

...and once this goal is finally reached the programmer will breathe a sigh of relief and then promptly be fired since now the machine can do the job as well as they could.

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The tooling in 2026 is so easy you can do almost anything without AI very very quickly.
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