Playing the fiddle

Something I’m noticing about AI, or at least this moment of AI agents and tools for building software, is the extreme amount of fiddling they invite. Fiddling here includes things like trying new models and tools, tweaking prompts, leveraging MCP servers vs. code tools, browsing plugins, installing skills, configuring hooks, setting up subagents, and the list goes on. The specific knobs you can fiddle vary from tool to tool, but their existence and multitude are hard to avoid. And knobs aren’t even quite the right metaphor here, as turning a knob in the real world tends to have a deterministic

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