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> I don’t need to see why you feel the desperate need to larp as a technologist when you’re happy with letting an agent solve all the technical problems.

This is a false comparison. Agents cannot solve all the technical problems, so the entire statement falls apart.

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What techical problems agent can't solve exactly?
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agents are very very far from being able to send rockets to the moon just because you prompt them to.
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You’re overlooking that the point of technology- and technologists- is to ultimately serve customers. The pleasure is incidental.
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The point of technology is to make people’s lives better.

Out of curiosity, when you take a bite of a burger do you call it a product?

When you watch a movie do you call it content?

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What you and I are saying is synonymous. I’m simply reusing language that the post I’m responding to used. And also de-glamorizing/de-romanticizing things a bit, sure.

And given that fast food is the pinnacle of sustenance as a product and Hollywood has been content-brained since 1977, sure!

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