Ours is a culture...dominated by the unceasing exploration of what we can do rather than one of what we ought or ought not to do. We are burdened by a heavy too-much-ness...unwilling to say “no” in our rush to accomplish.

Everyone’s excited about agents, promising they’ll help “free us up”, but I know how this ends: productivity inflation. Everyone’s getting more done so nobody is getting more done.

agents will soon return with information and responses and more things that will require additional attention or oversight. What I want is the opposite: fewer things that require my attention.

LLMs are statistical averaging machines—massive forces for homogenization—and if you rely on them exclusively for anything creative you get just that: something very average

Also:

You have to hone your skills by making things without automation in order to perceive and understand what is truly good in your art. Otherwise the tools of automation will own you.

True of frameworks too. You have to make lots of stuff, sometimes without frameworks. Otherwise the frameworks own you and you can’t make anything without them.