There is no accumulated advantage in agentic coding: someone who ignored the whole of the past year could catch up to the frontier in two weeks.

On the topicWhat do coding agents change about software work?under our view: The gain is large, and it goes to whoever works with the agent directly

What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

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Cannot both be true

Working with coding agents is a skill you learn like an instrument; judging the tools after one try is like calling a piano bad after one go.

Hansson says somebody who ignored the whole of the past year could catch up to the frontier in two weeks, so there is no accumulated advantage in agentic coding. Steinberger says it is a skill you learn like an instrument and that judging the tools after one try is like calling a piano bad after one go. An instrument you can pick up in two weeks is not an instrument.

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