{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fueled By Progress","title":"Only Good Devs Catch AI's Mistakes, and AI Makes You Worse - Lars Faye | Ep. 97","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d466c15c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6979,"description":"🎥 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kas27lxen4\n🛠️ Hire me to implement AI in your business: https://mjs.link/work?s=fbp-ep97\n🎓 Join my community and learn how to leverage AI: https://mjs.link/mbs?s=fbp-ep97\n💡 Book a 1:1 advisory call with me: https://mjs.link/advisory?s=fbp-ep97\n🎙️ About this episode with Lars Faye\nLars Faye is a self taught developer with about fifteen years in the trenches, co founder of Chee Studio in Buffalo, and the guy who wrote \"Agentic Coding is a Trap.\" That article hit the front page of Hacker News, got read on air by Theo (t3.gg), and got covered by Cal Newport. He and I actually met arguing about this stuff in the comments on LinkedIn, so this conversation is the long version of that argument.\nWe trace his whole path first: five years old on an MS DOS prompt, a computer repair job he hated, his wife telling him he could just do it himself, first client websites in 2008 right as the economy collapsed, then going all in on agency work.\nThen we get into it. Lars is not anti AI. He uses agents every day and says every developer alive wants to type less. His argument is that there is no free lunch, that the tools which make you fast are the same tools that quietly stop you from learning, and that only a sharp developer can catch what a model gets wrong. We cover why he thinks the real problem is composition rather than code quality, what he means when he says the agents start to own you, why pointing an LLM at your own back catalog makes you stagnant, and the part I did not expect, which is that he thinks LLMs are going to cause the biggest surge of real programmers in history.\nI pushed back on a lot of this. He pushed back on me. If you are a builder trying to figure out how hard to lean into agents without hollowing yourself out, this is the conversation.\nRead the article: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap\n🔗 Connect with Lars Faye\nWebsite: https://larsfaye.com\nYouTube:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uB91CeQjbdZcccS91OwALZU4EYIFDFzE7cHWKZMcuHM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NmQ5/Yzk1MjA0ZDU2NjVk/NzE1OWQ0NjUyNTdi/ZDkwNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}