Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.
On the topicWhat do coding agents change about software work?under our view: What an agent should be given to work with is still being argued out
it was actually being damaged by overly prescriptive humans. And any programmer who's had a pointy-haired boss knows exactly what that is like. When the boss walks into the room, doesn't know anything, starts telling you how to program, how to code. What do you do? You sulk. You write shittier code if you're mandated to do things that are against your better judgment. Why would an agent not be the same?
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Hansson says over-prescribing makes an agent worse for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse. Steinberger shapes the entire codebase around what the model finds easy, down to keeping the names it picks. Both are accommodating the machine, and they disagree about which end of the work the accommodation belongs at.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.