"My job is to write loops": the coding shift Armin Ronacher resents but expects (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Ronacher splits the agent loop you supervise inside a session from the harness loop that runs outside it, deciding on its own whether to continue. His worry isn't speed: LLMs won't make illegal states unrepresentable, piling defensive checks on errors that can't happen.
The thread turned it into a labor question. Engineers describe two camps — agents-go-brrr versus the people drowning in their PRs — and a darker read: the Claude Code creator's job is to move tokens, like a brewery CEO's is to move kegs.
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