The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said, then moved away from

What this subject means

AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.

On the topicWhat do coding agents change about software work?under our view: Writing the code was never the binding constraint, so making it cheap changes less than it looks

What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible.

Hansson says the ideas in software originate with humans and that agents build what people tell them to build. Ball says agents running on compute no human owner can switch off are inevitable rather than merely possible. An agent nobody can switch off is one that eventually acts on an idea nobody gave it.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.