DHH Calls AI Agents Endless Execution Nirvana
Venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian endorses programmer David Heinemeier Hansson's view on agent-powered idea execution.
David Heinemeier Hansson wrote that AI agents now deliver endless execution for any idea or experiment. He called the experience nirvana for people with endless ideas and the most fun he has ever had with a computer. Alexis Ohanian replied that he could not have said it better and felt the statement in his bones. The remarks appeared in a public post linking to Hansson's article on the same theme.
For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.
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4 postsExactly right. Couldn't have said it better myself. Feeling this in the marrow of my bones
For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.
"Now I could write at length about all the caveats. All the potential dangers. All the ways it's not quite there yet. But it would be an insult to the marvel of this moment... This is simply the most fun I've ever had with a computer."
"Now I could write at length about all the caveats. All the potential dangers. All the ways it's not quite there yet. But it would be an insult to the marvel of this moment... This is simply the most fun I've ever had with a computer."
It feels like computing is new again. When microcomputers were new the mainframe people who doubted them thought they knew computing. But it was a new era. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. And “we” is everyone. Some lessons will be related for sure, but which are unclear.
"Now I could write at length about all the caveats. All the potential dangers. All the ways it's not quite there yet. But it would be an insult to the marvel of this moment... This is simply the most fun I've ever had with a computer."