An Alternative Take on AI Native Software Development
Want to build something?
Ask an AI Agent to do it.
It didn't one-shot it?
Ask the AI Agent to fix it.
Still broken?
Ask it again. And again. Congrats — you're now a Senior Prompt Engineer.
Brownfield project? Legacy codebase written in ancient runes?
Ask an AI Agent to handle it.
It breaks? Ask it to fix it.
It breaks again? Same answer. You're getting the pattern.
"But how do I make it secure?"
Ask an AI Agent to do it.
"But how can I trust it?"
The same way you trusted Stack Overflow and random blog posts from 2014 for a decade. At least this one doesn't have pop-up ads.
"But it doesn't scale!"
It does. An AI Agent ships faster, doesn't ask for a raise, and has never once taken a three-hour lunch.
"But it lacks domain knowledge!"
Give it a skill. Problem solved. Next.
"But it can't run autonomously!"
Build a cron job. The 1970s called — that one's been figured out.
"But what about my job?!"
It will take it. Eventually. So in the meantime: relax, enjoy the ride, and ask the AI to do it.
"But I don't understand what it generated!"
You didn't understand half the Stack Overflow code you copy-pasted either. Ship it.
"But what if it hallucinates?"
So did your last senior dev. At least the AI documents its hallucinations in the diff.
"But I need to write tests!"
Ask an AI Agent to write them. It'll also make them pass. Sometimes by deleting the assertions.
"But the code is ugly!"
Ask it to refactor. Then ask it to refactor the refactor. Welcome to software engineering — nothing has changed.
"But I need a code review!"
Ask an AI Agent to review it. Then ask a different AI Agent to review that review.
"But my team won't adopt it!"
Your team also resisted the Internet, Git, Jira, TypeScript, and that one guy's standing desk. They'll come around.
"But what about compliance and regulations?"
Ask an AI Agent to read the 300 page compliance doc and summarize it. Then ask it to make your code compliant.
"But I need architecture decisions!"
Ask an AI Agent to architect it. Ask another one to critique it. Pick the answer that matches what you already wanted to do.
"But what if the context window runs out?"
Break the problem into smaller pieces, ask AI to do it.
"But I need it to remember previous conversations!"
Build memory. Ask an AI Agent how to do it.
"But I've been coding for 20 years. I know better."
You don't. Ask AI to do it.
"But what if it takes over the world?"
Right now it needs to fix your broken API endpoint, ask it to do it.
"But this whole framework sounds reckless!"
So did the internet. So did open source, so did Agents that work in your terminal, but someone asked AI to do.
Yes, this was written by an AI Agent.
I asked it to do it.
In case you didn't get it this is Satire. Yeah... AI can also do it.
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