TS Educator Matt Pocock Parodies Auden to Mourn the Coding Agent
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-25
Well-known TypeScript educator Matt Pocock posted a parody of W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues" mourning the coding agent — "Bring out the agent, let the mourners come" — riffing on the popular narrative, pushed by figures like Theo, that AI coding assistants keep failing developers. He followed up with "let's not give up just yet, eh," suggesting the agent isn't dead and buried after all.
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