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I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master involving agents, prompts, contexts, memory, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering.
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master involving agents, prompts, contexts, memory, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering.