Old paradigms accumulate epicycles until they collapse and a new paradigm makes all of the complexity evaporate.

· Bits and Bobs 4/27/26
  • Old paradigms accumulate epicycles until they collapse and a new paradigm makes all of the complexity evaporate.
    • The software development process that was the consensus before AI we've taken as a hallowed, principled approach to how to build software.
    • What if it was just decades of accumulated epicycles on top of fundamentally the wrong model for building software?
    • What if agentic engineering is much closer to the platonic ideal that was always there, lurking just outside of our reach?