Honestly, it’s a weird position. On one hand, I despise the popular ideas behind it. Complete lack of concern for security, governance, workflow, … it’s like a stack of toddlers in a trench coat, acting like professionals.

On the other hand, I’m rather convinced that there’s a “right way.” What if I implemented a swarm of agents to do mundane tasks, sandboxed them, only gave them read-access to non-sensitive assets, gave them write access to only secure, version controlled locations… maybe I let them push code into repositories, but only under feature branches. …

Hallucinations are just part of the technology, meaning you need to have really good governance. Yet still, I think there’s value in starting from whatever and AI can scrap up for a project — rather than starting from scratch. I imagine there has to be a way to actually use this tool professionally. Something sobering, not drunk on AI kool-aid. Yet still, it’s demotivating given the cloud of bullshit surrounding the topic right now.