Thoughts on AI

I've been using herdr for day-to-day coding with my favorite agent pi. Here's its special power: I can run a herdr command to talk to any other agent running in any other terminal.

In March of 2025, my employer mandated that everyone use AI for coding. Agentic coding had not yet arrived. I could vibe code some slop but I couldn't get it to move TypeScript import statements from one file to another without the agent getting confused. The models evolved. People tried elaborate "prompt engineering" or Ralph loops but, still, agentic coding hadn't yet arrived.