"Agents will force a rethink of convenience libraries" — devs argue it's just jQuery again
tlakomy · x · 2026-11-14
DavidKPiano argues that many popular libraries exist mainly to save devs typing and thinking, but agents don't care—they'll effortlessly write explicit, more robust code, and better alternatives already exist or are being built, so many libraries will need reevaluation in the agent era. tlakomy pushback: "That's literally jQuery"—implying convenience abstractions have always held value, a debate that replays at every paradigm shift. It hits a core tension of agent-era tooling: are human-convenience abstractions still needed?
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