The Paradox of Supervision, a Four-Line Vendor Swap, and the Chart Its Authors Don't Trust
An essay arguing agentic coding is a trap, a vendor switch that takes four lines of shell, and the authors of the chart everyone is screenshotting telling everyone to be careful with the chart. Today's Braid is mostly about the developer's side of the AI conversation — the workflows, the cost lines, the harness, and what happens when a customer asks for a HIPAA BAA.
Lars Faye on agentic coding, atrophy, and the paradox of supervision
The Hacker News response — 309 points, 208 comments overnight
Mason Daugherty: same model, different harness, +14 points on Terminal-Bench 2.0
DeepClaude —…
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