What Brian Lovin thinks about coding agents

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Product designer at Notion working on AI products, and maker of the read-it-later app Shiori.

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14 Apr 2026

Our readingAI is not magic: the underlying systems are very complicated, but what it does on your computer, like writing files and invoking bash commands from the 70s, is knowable.

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Their wordsAI is not magic. The underlying systems are very complicated. I don't think anybody would claim they know what an LLM's doing under the hood. But it is doing things on your computer like writing files and writing scripts and like invoking bash commands that were invented in the 70s. And those are knowable things.

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