The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

Coding agents require the scaffolding, learning, and often demand more attention than tools, but are built to look like teammates. This makes them both unwieldy tools and lousy teammates. We should either have agents designed to look like a teammate properly act like a teammate, and barring that, have a tool that behaves like a tool.

• Fred Hebert

From an article worth reading, which overall notes that AI can be a useful tool but that the UIs we currently have for it are not nearly sufficient, and those that are managing to be successful with it are doing a ton of work to compensate.