vboykis pushes back on 'languages don't matter': agents need well-designed primitives
vboykis · x · 2026-09-26
- Responding to the popular claim that programming language syntax no longer matters because agents "just do it," vboykis argues this is flatly wrong.
- Her core point: agent reliability depends on solidly designed primitives underneath; without them you get "sloppy soup."
- She adds that agents succeed on primitives like git, bash, and grep precisely because someone thought hard about making them good.
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