I’ve been noticing something weird lately. Not with AI itself. AI is obviously getting better: the models are getting better, the tooling is getting better, and things that sounded completely ridiculous two years ago are now normal things to do on a Tuesday.
I’m talking about the people talking about it. Spend enough time on Tech Twitter and you start seeing the same ideas over and over again, just with different words.
Someone discovers that an LLM can call a tool: it’s an agent. Someone puts two agents together: it’s multi-agent orchestration. Someone gives the agent memory: it’s cognitive architecture. Someone lets it modify its own files: it’s autonomous software engineering.
Then somebody draws a diagram with twelve boxes and suddenly we’ve apparently invented computers again. The funny thing is that most of these things are genuinely useful. The problem isn’t the technology. It’s the mythology around the technology.
Understanding is still the work
