> There are 'points of view' that emerge during coding
replyI know it’s a bit cliche at this point, but this harkens to “programming as theory building”[0] which I agree is easy to lose out on when embracing agentic coding today.
I have had the phrase "programming is building a theory" spinning in my head for days, especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHQQtjIOpw
replyyeah I 100% agree - and I think the most popular coding agent workflows / skill kits are designed to pull those insights and intuition out of humans in a way that optimizes for the developer's experience building the plans or building the code, e.g.
reply- claude code plan mode - mattpocock/skills - obra/superpowers - research/plan/implement
etc etc
Hard to see them though if you’re not in the weeds and your agents are stacking abstraction on abstraction to pass tests.
replyyes exactly
replyThe machine gives you what you ask for even when that thing doesn’t exist yet.
replyRather than “lights off,” utilizing information theory, decision-making theory and creativity theory makes me better at asking for the right things.
Memory is not transcribed to weights like when humans sleep. Memory is notes handed to someone on groundhog’s day who can’t remember yesterday. We hope they believe us. Don’t be too surprised when a highly entropic system introduces entropy to a project over time.