# The Influentists

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-influentists/230060>\
**Category:** AI Official News\
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**Created:** [15 January 2026 03:57 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-influentists/230060 "2026-01-15T03:57:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [15 January 2026 03:57 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-influentists/230060/1 "2026-01-15T03:57:50Z")

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> Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
> 
> Last week, the developer community was busy discussing about a single tweet:
> 
> > Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン  
> > @rakyll
> > 
> > I’m not joking and this isn’t funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned… I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.
> 
> The author is Jaana Dogan (known as Rakyll, a highly respected figure in the Google ecosystem…

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> Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype