What Adam Tornhill thinks about AI agents

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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3 Sept 2026

Our readingContinuing to work in ways optimized for manual programming is unlikely to provide benefits in the era of AI agents.

Their wordsAgents are similar, and continuing to work in ways optimized for manual programming is unlikely to give us benefits.

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