What Karl Marx Would Say About Your Coding Agents: Every Engineer's Alienation Essay
danshipper · x · 2026-10-31
Every engineer Loren Stewart applies Marx's theory of alienation to his own "code factory": LLM-drafted plans reviewed by him and a second agent, decomposed into parallel chunks, implemented via browser and terminal, auto-checked and approved by a reviewer agent. The factory ships features while he's away—faster and often better—but handing off coding cost him the learning and satisfaction of trial and error. The essay offers a framework for when to automate, supervise, or code by hand.
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