No matter how bad you think AIs are, I think there are some areas they are always useful:
- scaffolding -- I have seen large projects fail because the later phases couldn't start until it was too late. If you have a good spec for a big project and all the interface points, an AI is great for making temporary working implementations of all the parts. Although it can raise amuzing questions when a 6-month 2-person project has a 100% working scaffold in a weekend. - Code reviews with an LLM. An agent has a limited token space. But with a custom LLM looking things like code vs comment discrepancies, it can turn up a lot of issues. ----- Original message ----- From: Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: "Claude, My New Pair Programming Partner" — New blog post on all: objects all: theTime Date: Sunday, June 07, 2026 12:39 PM I like what Linus Torvalds say here : https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-programming-productivity/ In the best of cases, is a productivity tool. Just like compilers were at a point (compilers did not have all the ecological issues associated, of course). The first thing we need to do is stop anthropomorphizing tools. It really freaks me out when people talk about LLMs — and agents — as if they were human. Esteban On 5/8/26 17:26, Stephane Ducasse via Pharo-dev wrote: > I love it. > IA look like crap generator. > > I see in some text I’m reading. > So for the code I can image. > > S > > >> On 8 May 2026, at 10:17, Nicolas Anquetil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> About AI and truck factor >> >> This post https://www.shapeandship.ai/p/cheap-to-build-costly-to-keep argues >> that with AI coding the truck factor tends toward 0... >> *In a post-mortem, this surfaces as "nobody knew this code existed," which >> is worse than "only one person knew."* >> >> They talk about "comprehension debt" (evolution of the technical debt >> concept) >> >> cheers >> >> nicolas >> >> On 2026-05-07 22:01, Koen De Hondt wrote: >>> Dear Pharo users and developers, >>> >>> I posted a first article in a series about using AI in Pharo development. >>> After seeing the world embrace agentic development tools, I decided it was >>> time to look into them and see how they can be used for software >>> development in Pharo. >>> >>> https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/24 >>> >>> As always, all feedback is welcome. >>> >>> Happy reading! >>> >>> Ciao, >>> Koen >> -- >> Nicolas Anquetil >> Evref team -- Inria Lille
