How I program with Agents - crawshaw - 2025-06-08

It is easy for the haughty to disregard the work of gluing well-known APIs together as “not real” programming, but it has been the practical experience of my career that for every hour of truly interesting programming I can do, I have had to do 10 or more hours of dreary work with APIs, libraries, dysfunctional compilers, build systems, or obtuse package managers to actually make that hour useful. Having a tool that lets me do 30 minutes of “not real” programming by writing a few carefully constructed sentences, and lets me vacuum the kids' room while it works, preserves momentum.