Here's a separate, optimistic comment about Yegge and Huntley: they are obviously on the right track.

In a recent video about Loom (Huntley's orchestration tool), Huntley comments:

"I've got a single goal and that is autonomous evolutionary software and figuring out what's needed to be there."

which is extremely interesting and sounds like great fun.

When you take these ideas seriously, if the agents get better (by hook and crook or RLVR) -- you can see the implications: "grad student descent" on whatever piece of software you want. RAG over ideas, A/B testing of anything, endless looping, moving software.

It's a nightmare for the model of software development and human organization which is "productive" today, but an extremely compelling vision for those dabbling in the alternative.