> be me > coding agent evangelist > says ideology is dead because the benchmark is finally honest > no more holy wars over Go, Rust, REST, gRPC > just ship, measure, repeat > Ellul rolls up > says congrats, you discovered technique > the "one best way" is not liberation > it is the machine teaching you what counts as a question > your metrics are not neutral, they are the cage with better UX https://technologos.fr/index.php?fic=text%2Fjacques_ellul.txt> Burnham enters wearing a manager badge > says yes, yes, excellent > the real issue is who controls the system, not which language you stan > coding agents are just managerial power with autocomplete > they compress craft into process and make coordination cheaper > that means the people who set goals get even more leverage https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1700735.The_Managerial_Revolution> everyone celebrates "outcomes" > no more vibes, only correctness > except correctness gets defined by whoever owns the dashboard > and the dashboard always wants more dashboard > the tool becomes the institution > the institution becomes the class interest > the class interest becomes "best practice" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Managerial_Revolution> final boss take > Ellul says: technique conquers by being useful > Burnham says: the managerial class conquers by administering usefulness > nice, now the machine writes the code and the boss writes the KPI, same shit different frontend
>>108667502>Wagie gets philosophical
