Within technology circles, there's a lot of buzz right now about a recent essay written by a professional programmer and entrepreneur named Lars Faye.

It opens with the following description of the current state of affairs of AI-driven software development.

I'm going to read here.

This workflow takes many shapes at this point, but in general, it is a process where someone

defines the project's requirements, generates a plan, and then pulls the slot machine lever

over and over, iterating and reiterating with often multiple agent instances until it's done,

all the while putting a growing distance between the orchestrator and a code that is being generated and committed.

Now, this new approach to computer programming has thrown the industry into a frenzy of excitement.

And I really do mean excitement.

Let me read you a real quote from an essay that a developer posted just a couple months ago.

Now I'm reading here.

What a fantastic time to be alive.

With Claude Code, I have become, if I do say so myself, a 10x developer.

Sometimes it feels like 100x.

I find it all thrilling and amazing.

It's all intoxicating to watch Claude code work, to ask it to do something

that I know would take a week, or to have it figure out some complex bug that I would have taken

three days to debug is almost too much to believe. I don't have the superlatives to describe it.

Now, what does that rhetoric remind me of?

Whoa, that's a full rainbow all the way.

Double rainbow.

Oh, my God.

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