Look, don’t get me wrong. Working with coding agents is incredibly frustrating at times. Not a day goes by where I’m not ranting at one of them, about to have a heart attack.

I’ll say, “No, no, NO, for the last time, it’s 91 issues, not 318, I swear this conversation sucks so hard I feel like I’m talking to a jet engine.” And then I’ll think, “Gosh, who says LLMs stifle creativity? My insults have been on point lately.” And then I think, “Remember in The Terminator (1984) when SkyNet read all my Claude logs and sent a robot back to kill me?”

You’ve all been there, I’m sure.

— Steve Yegge, Beads Blows Up, Medium, 2025