Love this post by @rwieruch about using libraries vs. building your own. It was always a trade-off, especially when it came to custom design, but agentic coding dramatically moved the crossover point toward the primitives:
Thomas Dohmke on X: "Love this post by @rwieruch about using libraries vs. building your own. It was always a trade-off, especially when it came to custom design, but agentic coding dramatically moved the crossover point toward the primitives: https://t.co/suyn0GJ5by"
now I just hope someone does not also go ahead and start writing a hand made cryptographic lib because well what could go wrong, right?
I’d measure the crossover in lines the team can still review, not lines the agent can generate.
agents move the crossover point, but primitives still need tests. custom code is cheaper than a library only until you own every edge case.
