Sentry CEO questions always-on agents; crawshaw bets agents can solve old-software lessons
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-12
Sentry CEO David Cramer argued that wanting an agent to 'stay on a machine' to create artifacts creates many bad scenarios people seem to have forgotten, and that coding harnesses should favor scale-out capabilities.
davidcrawshaw replied that he has learned lessons from maintaining old software and is betting agents can solve many of those problems.
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