Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.

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  The pie of software work is exploding, not growing: with the cost of exploring a hunch down a thousandfold, projects nobody would have contemplated get done.

  Hansson says the pie of software work is exploding, not growing, because the cost of exploring a hunch fell a thousandfold and projects nobody would have contemplated now get done. Pai says coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better, because the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written. One counts the new projects; the other says the constraint they run into is unmoved.

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• AI coding agents advance open source's founding goal by letting far more people modify software, so barring AI-assisted contributions protects a guild rather than the mission. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson1 Jun 2026coding agents
• AI coding agents have made redesigning existing systems cheap enough that developers actually redesign instead of living with a flawed design. KDKent C. Dodds16 Mar 2026coding agents
• AI coding agents pulling unknown code onto corporate networks will be exploited, and it will take the shape of a supply-chain attack. BSBruce Schneier4 Sept 2026coding agents
• AI coding agents work best with the same general-purpose tools built for humans, such as git and file utilities, rather than agent-specific interfaces. HRHarper Reed30 Sept 2025coding agents
• As a small design team, you should not stand in the way of engineers designing with coding agents but find ways to support them. NFNev Flynn15 Sept 2026coding agents

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