100% Autonomous “Agentic” Coding Is A Fool’s Errand

Jason Gorman:

Computing has a long history of teaching us that there are many things we thought we understood that, when we try to explain it to the computer, it turns out we don’t.

This is true of computing specifically, but also many other intellectual exercises more broadly. To restate it:

There are many thing we think we understand that, when we try to explain it to someone else (in writing or by the spoken word), we realize we don’t understand it nearly as well as we thought we did.