And there is a lot missing in the actual harnesses frankly that isn't about more parallel agent ninjutsu. Like why isn't there a 'move this function from this file to this file' tool (copy/paste char range) and we have to see Claude/Codex/etc flail around rewriting huge chunks of code in token space
This is a very important point. There's so much missing in software development that we've gone from zero to one hundred without considering the in between. Same thing happened with electric cars and automated driving. Everyone decided that we should go from no driver assistance to full-self driving instead of incrementally building up driver assistance features. This is similar. We and these AI tools need better semantic tooling for dealing with software development. Otherwise, like you say, these AI tools are just going to flail about as much as we do. It's pretty ridiculous our version control systems still operate on objects that are just lines of text.
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This is a very important point. There's so much missing in software development that we've gone from zero to one hundred without considering the in between. Same thing happened with electric cars and automated driving. Everyone decided that we should go from no driver assistance to full-self driving instead of incrementally building up driver assistance features. This is similar. We and these AI tools need better semantic tooling for dealing with software development. Otherwise, like you say, these AI tools are just going to flail about as much as we do. It's pretty ridiculous our version control systems still operate on objects that are just lines of text.