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Coding agents have crossed a chasm

David Singleton · 14 Jun 2025

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  1. If I imagine a ladder of our evolving relationship with coding agents, we’ve climbed to a new rung. We’ve moved from “smarter autocomplete” and “over the shoulder helper” to genuine “delegate-to” relationships - they’re like eager and determined interns.
  2. But here’s the thing: while these human-in-the-loop tools were transformative, the fully autonomous experiences just weren’t close to good enough until recently.

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