Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

Simon Willison Blog
Generative AI

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Mario Zechner created the Pi agent framework used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed: We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned. Agents and humans both make mistakes, but agent mistakes accumulate much faster: A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours.