Yesterday I wrote about prompting an AI to create a Git branch. Today I want to revisit the sheer absurdity of what that request actually costs in compute, energy, and money. The numbers are sobering and tragically funny.
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AI is NOT your new terminal
I caught myself prompting an AI agent to create a Git branch. The prompt had more keystrokes than the command. That moment revealed something uncomfortable about how we're starting to confuse two very different tools.
The Agile hangover
Writing precise specs so AI agents don't drift feels oddly familiar. It looks a lot like the structured engineering of the 1970s and 80s, the very thing Agile promised to replace. Maybe we're feeling the hangover of decades of loose planning, and the cure is to start engineering again.
What variable are you maximizing?
A metal concert in Berlin, AI-generated music nobody can play, vibe-coded software nobody can maintain, and the question that ties them all together.