since the rise of agentic coding tools, it feels like we're in a new "eternal september" of people discovering ui end-to-end test automation.

Also the merits of documentation and specs. It’s been eye-opening to see the subset of developers who were almost disdainful about writing documentation for their colleagues but are now tripping over themselves to do so for their clanker.

Agents read the docs. People don't. That's the underlying reason.

Clanker is the new excuse to use hard R against something you don't like.

People are rediscovering everything. Some people have proposed using a more formal language to tell the AI precisely what code to write. That's a compiler.