The thing about agentic coding is that agents grind problems into dust. Give an agent a problem and a while loop and - long term - it’ll solve that problem even if it means burning a trillion tokens and re-writing down to the silicon. Like, where’s the bottom? Why not take a plain English spec and grind in out in pure assembly every time? It would run quicker. But we want AI agents to solve coding problems quickly and in a way that is maintainable and adaptive and composable (benefiting from improvements elsewhere), and where every addition makes the whole stack better. So at the bottom is really great libraries that encapsulate hard problems, with great interfaces that make the “right” way the easy way for developers building apps with them. Architecture! While I’m vibing (I call it vibing now, not coding and not vibe coding) while I’m vibing, I am looking at lines of code less than ever before, and thinking about architecture more than ever before. I am sweating developer experience even though human developers are unlikely to ever be my audience. How do we make libraries that agents love?
Is this an example of how to better make agents (better architecture and libraries underneath) or an example of 'the arc of AI bends towards deterministic software: architecture and libraries making agents as flat as functions?