Agreed.
Author drowned out the thesis of the article with an overly long background story that didn’t really drive home the point that well. It felt forced. Felt like a way to say, “I’m a skeptic about these things” while taking up four paragraphs of filler.
The author offered no investigation into different styles of coding that span the gradient of possible options (from agentic coding to handholding the LLM to not using an LLM at all).
I found myself wanting to rewrite the article without the ebook ad and incredibly long anecdote that took up most of the article and barely related to the subject.
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The emdashes and not x, not y, but z. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣