Apart from everything by else, the circular citations are so obvious in hindsight. I introduced people to his newsletter and now feel very silly.

Thank you for being a better voice; it must get frustrating to have to repeat the same things so often.

The “One Book“ and “One Pundit“ theories continue to be validated! 🙂

It really is insane. I charged ours day before yesterday for what I’m pretty sure is the second time the entire time we’ve had it. Could be off by one but still.

It is interesting how differently we think - to me, what you’ve quoted from Bjarnson is self-evident! And while I appreciate the “Worse Is Better“ essay (ty for reminding me of it!) I’m not sure I take the same point from it. Ty for the food for thought. Ultimately we may just have different values.

Personally, I think this all sounds very exciting for whoever is on call when it breaks in production.

Reasonable enough, thanks for elaborating. There’s never been a consensus on what makes software teams productive, and LLMs have only made it less clear. I’m glad your personal connections have given you insight, I just don’t have that clarity myself. I suppose we’ll all see what is built!

Anecdotally from a colleague, apparently the hope is that the code doesn’t have to be maintainable, since when it breaks you’ll use the Text Emitter to debug it too. And when requirements change you just regenerate the entire thing from scratch instead of trying to modify anything. 🙃

As far as what you’ve personally observed, fair is fair, and if you feel like it helps you then fine. But regarding the post you linked: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin... from @baldurbjarnason.com is one of several thorough responses.