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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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This is fascinating. Ignoring, for a moment, the assertion that AI agents are sentient beings somehow, what struck me about both part 1 and 2 is the bafflingly sincere excitement about turning a fairly straightforward software project into "building a new civilization", and the assumption that this whole process will be best repeated for every software project. Let's even ignore the abysmal economics of needing to effectively invent the universe in order to add apple pie to your crappy flash game. It's absolutely wild and possibly malpractice for an engineer to be this excited about the needless expansion of scope and complexity of a project. It really showcases the kind of mindset it takes to be this breathlessly excited about the sheer number of different components that are being worked on in order to eventually somehow make a game happen. This is the dopamine rush of seeing the agents do something combined with an abdication of any responsibility for exactly what they do.