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At the centre Software maintenance is on the path to being fully automated, with scheduled agents already doing what used to take dozens or hundreds of engineers. Holds BCBoris Cherny Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Programmers are turning into project managers of an army of junior agents, and the craft is moving from writing code to reviewing it and holding the architecture. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
• Similar wording Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse. Holds BVBen Vinegar
• Similar wording Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once. Holds SWSimon Willison
• Similar wording The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour. Holds KHKelsey Hightower
• Similar wording A swarm of agents with the right loop and the right metric can already out-produce a team of a hundred engineers. Holds AWAlexandr Wang
• Similar wording Letting more people write software in natural language does not reduce the work; it snowballs the amount of software that has to be maintained. Holds THThePrimeagen
• Similar wording The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more. Holds DRDax Raad
• Similar wording Software's customer is no longer the human but the agent acting on their behalf, and the whole industry has to be refactored around that. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy