Same, have a very old MBP. Not sure what to do because I don’t want to wait a year and a half. That coupled with today’s price increases make it a tougher decision.
Yeah, fully agentic coding just takes too much knowledge out of the engineer. It’s a lazy man’s button to do work and yield average results. Fun for vibe coding and not reliable enough for enterprise where quality matters. Maybe their focus will pay off in reliability, maybe not.
The author doesn’t address: A good engineer spends little comparative time coding versus other tasks for established projects. A good engineer understands the system end to end. Offshore developers are worse than Llama3.
IBM is reinventing itself, no? From mainframe maximalists to purchasing HashiCorp, Red Hat, Confluent. All to capture enterprise for years to come. It seems as if IBM is making a comeback.
Description from website: Kaiden runs your coding agents in isolated sandboxes and equips them with the models, tools, and assets they need. Repeatable, preconfigured environments to iterate faster. Experiment safely. Works locally or in your enterprise environment. Built for developers, governed by your platform team.
The problem is when that vernacular extends into regular life. I haven’t noticed it yet with unalive, but I’m sure there will come a day. Eventually if the censors continue suppressing the word suicide, we will end up with unalive taking suicide’s place both online and offline. Then, the censors will censor unalive, and a new word will be coined, and the cycle continues.