Bike-Shedding in the Agentic Era: Startups Keep Reinventing Git, Filesystems, and HTTPS
emax · x · 2026-10-15
sull points out a new form of bike-shedding in the agentic era: teams "raising their ambitions for procrastination" by reinventing technologies that work perfectly fine today — git, filesystems, HTTPS, text editors, and more — instead of tackling genuinely new problems in the agent tooling stack.
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