The gap through which we praise the machine

ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise..., by Fred Hebert, June 9, 2025

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

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โ€” Fred Hebert (@ferd.ca) June 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM

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