Not to mention, unless you want to ship entire containers, you are beholden to the unknown quirks of tools on whatever system your agent happens to execute on. It's like taking something already nondeterministic and extremely risky and ceding even more control—let's all embrace chaos.

Generative AI is here to stay, but I have a feeling we will look back on this period of time in software engineering as a sort of dark age of the discipline. We've seemingly decided to abandon almost every hard won insight and practice about building robust and secure computational systems overnight. It's pathetic that this industry so easily sold itself to the illogical sway of marketers and capital.