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Re:Wood Tape (2004) on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:09PM (#49998837)
my wife and I have this note in our notes, which has all the interesting things our son has said since he could talk. Its one of my most cherished things. every single entry brings back a memory.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:29AM (#46704733)
Shipping unreviewed, untested code into production is irresponsible. But not all code is production code, and in my experience most valuable work happens long before anything deserves architectural sign-off / big commercial commitment.

Exploratory scripts, glue code—what I think of as digital duct tape between systems—scaffolding, probes, and throwaway POCs have always been messy and lightly governed. That’s kind of normal.

What’s different now is that more people can participate in that phase, and we’re judging that work by the same norms and processes we use for production systems. I know more designers now who are unafraid to code than ever before. That might be problematic or fantastic.

Where agentic coding does work for me is explicitly in those early modes, or where my own knowledge is extremely thin or I don’t have the luxury of writing everything myself (time etc). Things that simply wouldn’t get made otherwise: feasibility checks, bridging gaps between systems, or showing a half-formed idea fast enough to decide whether it’s worth formalising.

In those contexts, technical debt isn’t really debt, because the artefact isn’t meant to live long enough to accrue interest or be used in anger.

So I don’t think the real question is "does agentic coding work?" It’s whether teams are willing to clearly separate exploratory agency from production authority, and enforce a hard line between the two. ( I dont think they'll know the difference sadly) and without that, you’re right—you just get spaghetti that passes today and punishes EVERYONE six months later.

Re:Place Kit – The future of augmented reality mobile apps on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:13AM (#16357741)
This is a really great UI kit, very consistent and much needed in the space.
Re:Place Kit – The future of augmented reality mobile apps on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:07AM (#16357716)
may not be the intention but this came across as an arrogant comment, not everyone's first language is english.