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Natural Language Is an Interface Capability, Chat Is Just a Mechanism

Posted by robenglander on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:37PM
from the robenglander.com dept.

https://robenglander.com/writing/the-case-for-language-native-software/

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Re:I don't want an autonomous AI agent. I want a collaborator on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:36PM (#47679495)

Agreed. And agents talking to agents is more abdication of authority than just one agent. The drift magnifies. So fixing on a communication standard is necessary, but not sufficient. I suspect once that obstacle comes down the problems get worse. Just me and my crystal ball.

I don't want an autonomous AI agent. I want a collaborator

Posted by robenglander on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:19AM
from the self-post dept.

I’ve been using Cursor, Claude, and others quite a bit and I keep hitting the same pattern. The tool really wants me to step aside. I hand it a task, it vanishes, edits a bunch of files, and comes back with a fat diff. Then I’m supposed to reverse-engineer what it did, tie it back to what I intended, and fix what’s not right if I can spot it. It works pretty well a fair amount of the time, but...

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Re:AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineeri... on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @11:28AM (#47414061)

I've published an article on Conversational Software Engineering, a direct followup to this article. https://robenglander.com/writing/cse-compiling-intent/