> Opus: "It won't work till we have the API key, but do NOT share it with me!" > Codex: "We'll need the API key to test, but don't share it here." > Muse Spark on contributor mode: "One thing left is the API Key. Paste it here and we're good to go. Just paste it bro. Paste it"

This one triggered people on all sides, so let me expand: 1) agents have gotten way slower, more verbose, more paranoid, idiosyncratic 2) yet they still (or even more often) make massive blunders. 3) This is more costly now. Opus will take a day to build something totally incoherent, even after a very clear plan 4) meanwhile sol is hyper focused on the nearterm goal, can be steered, but cannot regain its original trajectory 5) they write too many dumb tests, catch too many errors, build too many guardrails 6) which makes the codebase slower to parse, harder to read, slower to build, costlier for them to work in 7) they solve all of these problems with MORE complexity. Let’s multithread your tests, let’s create a fast running CI script, let’s create more packages, more repos. 8) so the loop goes on 9) many (most!) codebases at this point are worse off than they were 18 months ago. 10) oh just have another loop refactor everything? Another loop clean up the tests? Spend twice as many tokens tearing things down that were put up yesterday? That’s the solution? 11) this doubles the change requests of the already verbose code. Oh just get code rabbit? Greptile my PRs? All I need is a factory? I mean, don’t get me wrong. We’re past the point of no return. The only way out is through, I just hope we get there.