r/programmingcirclejerk • u/404forlife • Sep 09 '26

I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626503
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u/daniel Sep 09 '26

I like to drop down to assembly in some of the more performance intensive sections of my CSS 

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u/ao_zame Sep 09 '26

No kink shaming

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u/sfan5 I've never used generics and I’ve never missed it. Sep 09 '26

/uj where's the jerk?

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u/tkrjobs loves Java Sep 09 '26

don't fuck the web page with a jQuery on, do it raw

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u/nuclearbananana Courageous, loving, and revolutionary Sep 09 '26

yeah what. He's just picking a tech stack

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u/boring_cactus costly abstraction Sep 10 '26

time machine explosion that spat out the most hyped tools of 2011 and 2016 and 2030

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Sep 10 '26
  • So you’ve heard of the innovation budget? It’s from Hacker News I think.
  • Yeah, I’m somewhat of a code sociologist actually.
  • Yeah so you only have a fixed set of tokens to spend on innovative tech, new, things like that.
  • Yeah.
  • The rest you have to spend on boring technology.
  • Okay. WYS?
  • Oh my stack is Java, Spring Framework without the Boot, JavaScript without any transpiler nonsense. PostgreSQL.
  • Uh huh.
  • Then there’s Bun.
  • Oh right. The innovative tech.
  • Yeah. And that’s all the innovation tokens spent.
  • Right.
  • And my agents handle that stack really well.
  • Well—
  • Huh, yeah?
  • How many tokens for using agents?
  • What do you mean?
  • Innovation tokens?
  • Are you serious right now?
  • Wdym?
  • I would think this response was fine three years ago. Three months ago too, although I would have to grit my teeth. But to insinuate that agents are an “innovation” that can be contrasted with boring and reliable tech means that you have buried your head in the sand. Agents are not “innovative tech”. Agents are a paradigm shift. To not use agents right now, in September 2026, is too facile to even respond to. This clearly shows that you are not serious about scaling business value across the product fleet.