coding agents
What do coding agents change about software work?
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsCoding agents have gotten so good that it's simply not an economically viable enterprise going forward to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++.
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- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsif an entity can write a 1000 line program without ANY mistake and any compile error -- do you really think it needs the exact same crutches we do?
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAny programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.
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- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsIf you believe that Rust isn't needed for agents anymore because they're good at mem alloc then you also have to believe aspects of testing become useless.
- 6 days earlier
- MG
Molly Graham quoted
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild
Our readingEngineering is probably one of the areas where jobs have most visibly been transformed by AI.
Their wordsI think engineering is like probably one of the most visceral areas where people's jobs have genuinely transformed.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording
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Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsyou hear all these stories about like companies like counting tokens and having token leaderboards and it's like it brings me back to the days when people were like counting cars in a parking lot and Slack bubbles and lines of code, right? Which we all know is a really bad way to manage people.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
- SW
Simon Willison quoted
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
Their wordsThese two new models, when paired with their respective coding agent harnesses, improved from “often make mistakes” to “reliable enough to use on a day-to-day basis”.
- 2 days earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIt'll soon be seen as deeply irresponsible to have critical code reviewed by human eyes alone.
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingIt is shortsighted to think agentic AI will stop before it reaches the lowest layers of computing.
Their wordsMyopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
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- SW
Simon Willison quoted
Their wordsThe more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsThe claude hack of adding everything to git and then diffing it is definitely an option but very heavy handed :-/
- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsIncreasingly convinced: people who do best with agents are those that are good at shipping things in small pieces
- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsThese models are so much more now than text-to-code converters.
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- SK
Steve Klabnik quoted
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming…
Their wordsAnd the readability advantage for humans is even stronger for agents: the extra clarity of the text inline seems to (I haven't run real evals on this yet...) be more helpful and use less tokens and calls when looking at the actual call site.
↗Arguing about argumentssteveklabnik.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Our readingThe terminal may persist for coding agents and programmers longer than most people expect.
Their wordsI wouldn't be totally surprised if the terminal hangs around for coding agents and programmers longer than we all think.
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- CW
Chris Wellons quoted
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems…
Their wordsStrap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.
↗What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Their words“Engineers” who act as “meat proxies” and shove tickets into agents and report back to humans will no longer be valuable.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 9th of 15 in this piece
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- KD
Kent C. Dodds quoted
Software engineer and educator
Their wordsI don't yet have numbers to back this up, but I gotta believe that someone connecting their agent to Kody in one agent and then switching their main driver to another somewhere else is suboptimal.
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- NF
Nev Flynn quoted
Head of Design at ElevenLabs
Their wordsI think as a small team, we definitely don't want to be the people that stand in the way of progress there, but rather find ways to support them
↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording
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Nev Flynn quoted
Their wordsthis changed for me where I think a few years ago people wanting to get involved with you know coding agents was kind of like optional bonus I would say whereas now kind of like a preference of mine. The skill level is less important than the enthusiasm around it I would say.
↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording
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- SW
Simon Willison quoted
Their wordsFrustratingly, the actual code it ran and exact details of what it did weren’t visible to me in the ChatGPT UI. I see this lack of transparency is an anti-feature.
↗Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Worksimonwillison.net
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsAgents are the new compilers. They compile intent into fast software.
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- GC
Geoff Charles quoted
Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire
Their wordsThey want the combination of qualitative and quantitative data to convince them that this is a problem, the actual requirements that they can use for their coding agents, and a prototype that they can actually get inspired by.
↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 5th of 13 in this recording
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Geoff Charles quoted
Their wordsOne tip here, though, is that coding agents are really good when you have a strong architecture and a strong codebase.
↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 6th of 13 in this recording
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- SR
Sebastian Raschka quoted
AI research engineer working on large language models
Their wordsI expect the upcoming months (or years) also to be an era of computer use refinement on both the LLM and the agent harness layer.
↗GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoningmagazine.sebastianraschka.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Ed Bayes quoted
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI
Their wordscreating these like really accessible interfaces just really expands the access of the power of coding agents to more and more people, which developers kind of got early and now I think rest of folks are kind of uh getting to know as well.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
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Ed Bayes quoted
Their wordsSo, no, I I don't think we're locked down at all um in terms of kind of the final patterns and and I think you're starting to see that now.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 4th of 18 in this recording
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- KD
Kent C. Dodds quoted
Their wordsIf you're lamenting writing code by hand like something you love is being taken away from you, see if you can fall in love with solving problems instead. Maybe you'll find out that's what you really loved the whole time
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- BV
Ben Vinegar quoted
Co-founder of Modem, and before it VP of Engineering at Sentry
Their wordsto make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't
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Bruce Schneier quoted
Security technologist and author
Their wordsThis kind of thing will be exploited. Think Solar Winds–style supply chain attacks.
↗AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networksschneier.com