Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/20262022: AI is here! You can just ask it stuff! 2023: Asking it doesn't work, we need to prompt engineer it. 2024: Prompt engineering doesn't work, we need RAG 2025: RAG doesn't work, we need Gastown 2026: Gastown doesn't work, we need Jev 2027: Jev doesn't work, we need Poob 2028: Poob doesn't work…#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social"Old, bad habits that you have from 2025-era agents" *All your painfully-learned 'agentic engineering" was a one-year fad. How often do you plan to buy into this? You could have bought meme-stocks with one percent of that effort youtu.be/jDG7L5HuBnk?...youtu.beI talked to 50 people building with AI. It’s a mess.YouTube video by Less Bitter1:06 PM · Sep 24, 2026 79917
Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 24/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialIf you can’t get Poob to work, that’s a you problem. You’re not setting the right Plom in the BingBong network. 1100
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The people who buy into the hype that we're moments away from AGI are also likely to believe in One Weird Trick that fixes their shitty generated code. Every new promise hits the headlines is a colossal relief - thank goodness it's not AI that's failed, we were just prompting it wrong! 2331
Machine Elvis @oatswizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialGawd, the fucking gastown boosters at my last job. I want to go back to a software engineering community where the hype follows things that actually work, not just whichever engineer’s shitty experiments sound the least efficient. 000
BugNotAFeature @bugnotafeature.bsky.social · 24/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI, for one, welcome our new Poob overlords. 000
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 24/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialthis video is so confusing to me because a lot of this stuff was still a problem in 2026. It's weird to listen to this strange view of history. I don't know that any of the solutions worked but the idea that AI in 2026 has uniformly been great and doesn't need any coddling is just wrong afaik? 240
Sloan Studio @sloanstudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialThe amount of power and processing required at each step has grown an insane amount as well. 000