# My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

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## What Jamie wrote

Ptacek bringing perspective to LLM use in software development.

> All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.

Getting more specific, this is the tooling.

> People coding with LLMs today use agents. Agents get to poke around your codebase on their own. They author files directly. They run tools. They compile code, run tests, and iterate on the results. They also:
> 
> - pull in arbitrary code from the tree, or from other trees online, into their context windows,
> - run standard Unix tools to navigate the tree and extract information,
> - interact with Git,
> - run existing tooling, like linters, formatters, and model checkers, and
> - make essentially arbitrary tool calls (that you set up) through MCP.

His last but made me chuckle cause there he has a point. "but i’m tired of hearing about it". The best antidote to that is to play with it and explore.

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