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<https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds>

As I said to Geoffrey on X about this article: even before LLMs, agents, copilots, buddies, I've personally always been an "Extend or Augment Reality"-philosophy person. Given the challenge to our community that LLMs bring, this will hopefully be an interesting thread, as this juxtaposition is quite polarising I think?

In the sense that one can see imperative programming languages as very much philosophically-aligned to agents: you "tell" the computer what to do and it slavishly follows instructions, as your programmable agent on-the-metal. The dual or inverse, declarative programming, is much more holistic and humane IMO, as you're dealing with live domain "stuff" directly - it augments your reality. AI agents are an extreme of imperative in the same way HUDs or AR are an extreme of declarative. Hence more extreme polarisation.