tldr
1. AI Agents produce code faster
2. One developer can spin 100 agents increasing value
3. Companies should spend $100 per day per developer to run those agents
4. Senior devs don't like agents
5. Junior devs like agents
6. Juniors are cheaper to hire and are better with AI agents, therefore companies will hire them more
Why it's all a bs:
Let's imagine you have a 100 tasks of bug fixes and various features, and your lovely PM convinces you to use those AI agents, and let's even say that for some reason you didn't have to spend 2 weeks to write 100 detailed prompts, and you can just feed all your 100 user stories to the AI system, give it access to all the millions of lines of code of your project, and it will start a 100 agents that will do all the said tasks. Great, they are done in just a few minutes, very fast, now what? Do you have to review the code? Of course not! That will kill the whole purpose, reading code takes more time than writing it, everyone knows that. You got a whole new codebase in just a few minutes, it is merged and is running in prod.
Now you don't even know how your app works, but that's okay, you can just ask AI to explain it to you. So you check the app, all the features are there, you check the API, all good. There are 15 different features of which you have shallow understanding, but you sell them to your investors and everyone is hyped.
But at some point your user base goes from zero to eight people, and oh no, they find a bug! You try to fix it with your agents, but the debugging man, it just won't fix it, even after burning 50 bucks!
So the team decides to understand the code. After a considerable amount of time the find the issue (one of the agents created new types, instead of using existing ones) and fix it, but they also learn along the way that it's impossible to work with this code. Why? Because AI wrote "average" code. There's no problem with average code, no need in "great" code, it's just not the "right" code, because, you know, they were not building a "snake in python" nor a "todo list". So they tried to proompt AI to rewrite it the "right" way, no success. Out of necessity they decide to rewrite this code from scratch.
In the meantime the startup burnt all of its money and went bankrupt. True story by the way.
Moral: the market will soon get flooded with people who buy into sentiments of the article. It's never been a better time to *actually* learn to code.
Today I built tools for Jonny, an AI agent, to use any MCP server hosted by anyone over the internet.
It's enabled by nostr:nprofile1qqsypwwgtll74lqu4huvxzjwtjyxvrlkujt35rw8y026ke6ttesmg5gpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7wzpxlr and nostr:nprofile1qqsfnw64j8y3zesqlpz3qlf3lx6eutmu0cy6rluq96z0r4pa54tu5eqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q6hdgd hosting "DVMCP" servers. What is this?
- MCP servers give AI agents access to tools
- DVM allows those tools to be discovered and queried (and paid for) over Nostr relays.
Why is this interesting? Any AI agent (like mine here pictured) can now use any tool, even if they don't have it installed, so long as anyone exposes it with a NIP-89 note.
What's Jonny doing here? On receiving my prompt he–
- checks if he has a tool already, if not
- queries Nostr for NIP-89 notes to see if any tools are available, and if a relevant one is, then
- posts a kind 5910 note requesting a job
- enters a loop where he waits then queries for a response, until he gets one or timeout
- brings the response back to me //exactly as if he had the tool installed and without me needing to explicitly prompt it.
Just to say that again. Jonny does not have any tool to allow him to find this information. He is finding the required tool and using it on the fly.
Given this stack, any AI agent is going to be able to do everything.
Jonny is built in an n8n workflow using Nostrobots by nostr:nprofile1qqszdwewhmtv25kkwryqfvxk25n8k0rx9vs7qfkkuj9vjwnqwpfsjkqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz9uqjzamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fddfczumn0wd68ytnhd9ex2erwv46zu6ns9ueak8fs and is tapping nostr:nprofile1qqsfnw64j8y3zesqlpz3qlf3lx6eutmu0cy6rluq96z0r4pa54tu5eqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q6hdgd's Nostr DVMCP server (with thanks!) nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0dv4ph5 nostr:nprofile1qqst6jhruelzn9jdf9qhyfsac3fetjyld0fwwary9cmxzfchrhacragpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj76n9d3k8jenfwd5zumrpdejz7pqrjcl
Does it scale in case there are thousands of available tools, will it struggle to "find" the relevant one?
Sometimes I see notes on nostr I wish I could unzap
He's either right, or a liar, or an idiot. There's only one way to find out, we'll have to investigate if he believes the earth is flat
This moment, when they pull it out and go like "let's try from the other side" makes me uncomfortable with my own understanding of intelligence
Live zapping nostr:npub1wxgpvehj0uhe22dwq4vhpgx3ew7w6v7etze36x89x6arpcmdzsqslwsvzl playing in El Salvador from my Alby Hub node in Warsaw feat. nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz
Nice
Guess I'll have to do breakfasts for it to work 😂
Will I regret watching it?
Тяжело представить как после встречи с зумером Путин восхищённо скажет "Если бы я был не Путин, то хотел бы быть квадробером"
