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A comment on Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale. Parent comment

Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by blenderob on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:46PM (#46735383)
> Your mother is never going to be able to use a Gas Town-like workflow to make software for her own needs, nor is she even going to want to spend her weekends trying.

I'm going on a tangent here but what's with this constant deprecation of mothers to make a point? There are many people here whose mothers can develop software.

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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by dullcrisp on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:53PM (#46737769)
I think it’s just a generalization. They could have said “your uncle Pete” without actually implying anything about anyone’s uncle named Peter.
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Re:Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibeco... by anonymous908213 on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:49PM (#46735428)
People's mothers are statistically unlikely to be programmers, obviously. My own grandmother was a programmer, but it conveys the idea in two words rather than making up a clunky phrase to describe the exact degree of non-techiness of the hypothetical person.
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