Not gonna be active on Discord tonight. I'm meeting an agentic MCP-enabled toolcalling orchestration stack with a fully wired planner/router/executor loop, tight context budgeting, progressive disclosure, and a permissions-gated action surface (a real one) in half an hour (wouldn't expect a lot of you to understand anyway) so please don't DM me asking me where I am (im with Claude Code Opus 4.5 holiday doubled usage limits building recursive self-autocoding subagents that emit their own eval probes and rollback triggers, all inside a scoped-permissions, human-approval-gated, MCP-connected capability mesh, with LSP IDE signal hook workflows doing tool selection, argument marshaling, post-call verification, and bounded capability escalation, ok) you'll most likely get aired because I'll be pushing MCP-scoped routing into GPT-5.2-Codex for long-horizon diffs, GLM 4.7 as the long-running executor worker, Playwriter as the browser leg for grounded repro/retrieval, and a 24 hour checkpointed run (because ill be meeting an agentic MCP-enabled toolcalling orchestration cluster with a fully wired planner/router/executor loop, tight context budgeting, progressive disclosure, and a permissions-gated action surface, not that you really are going to understand)
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.