Agent Programming...in 2004

Jesse Vincent was doing agentic development in 2004, managing MIT undergrads over IRC the same way you'd manage AI agents today. That experience shaped Superpowers, his coding agent that opens every session by asking what you're actually trying to build and why, because agents working from a one-line prompt will give you "the thing that the labs model assumes you want and not the thing that you actually want." Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oreillymedia