Re:An end to buggy web apps
by hollowturtle on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:42PM
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Makes me smile, seems ai written too. Agents will never fix this mess, it's upon us. But not in the way you're thinking. Asking agents to fix the mess they've been trained on, that they work on and they're made of it's just blindness utopia. We "just" need to part ways with current platforms(talking to you web) and build better abstractions and paradigms. The web plarform as is can't be saved anymore especially from us. It says a lot that many people get excited for a damn dialog html feature that we needed 20 years ago and it's also uncomplete
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Agents that are blind to understanding the problem they created will definitely not be able to fix it. Our argument is that we can fix that blindness with better observability. For better or for worse, even if the code is messy, if an agent can see what is going on it can keep things together and get the app into working shape. 100% human written too btw...
Re:An end to buggy web apps
by hollowturtle on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:15PM
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In my experience they're never blind they can't even explain why they chose a more verbose, unreadable and error prone approach instead of a simpler one, only to candidaly admit that "you're absolutely right!". You can improve the observability how much you want, it will never prevent agents to go off the rails and destroy the database