Agentic Mfw

This provocative essay critiques the current state of AI-driven software development, arguing that agentic AI systems have inverted traditional software engineering values—replacing maintainability, efficiency, and accessibility with wasteful complexity that serves as a status signal for venture capital funding. The author illustrates the contradiction by noting that while their own clean, fast, accessible website could have been built as bloated AI-generated slop, it was instead created with intentional restraint as an act of "spite" against industry norms that reward token-burning inefficiency over actual functionality.