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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Whether agent-written codeneeds to be good dependsentirely on how long it… SW Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 Agent-written code that runs and passes its tests is not enough: security, maintainability and being able to roll it back still need humans in the loop. Agent-written code thatruns and passes its… TF Tony Fadell — holds since 2026-06-07 The code today’s models and agents write is very hard to follow: you get better performance without knowing why, and no way to fix it when it breaks. The code today’s modelsand agents write is… ES Elizabeth Stone — holds since 2026-07-19 In an agent-written codebase the agent-written tests are equally untrustworthy; manually using the product is the only reliable measure of whether it works. In an agent-writtencodebase the… MZ Mario Zechner — holds since 2026-03-25 Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that wrote it, and it will tell you the code is great. Agentic code reviewraises the floor but… DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written. Coding agents madeimplementation cheap… SP Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-08-14 Keeping a codebase clean now pays off directly rather than aesthetically, because a coding agent will copy the patterns already in it almost exactly. Keeping a codebaseclean now pays off… SW Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default. The way software getsbuilt flipped in… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-03-20 Specifying what you want matters more now that agents write the code than it did when the work went to a human who could ask follow-up questions. Specifying what youwant matters more now… JD Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30
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