I actually didn't smell AI at all while reading this article, because the idea density seemed high, rather than when AI just expands a few ideas into repetitive mumbo jumbo. The last portion was a bit wordy and metaphysical, but he landed the plane at the end.
People in the know already had coding agents, they just needed a lot more back and forward as they weren't trained to be "agentic" and they were mostly cli based... then claude code was born because anthropic saw the potencial. The person in question used warp.dev which happened to bundle AI into so they stumbled into it more than anything.
This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see him in a concert hall, context matters so much...
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