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What Charity Majors thinks about coding agents

@charity-majors · 50 positions · 1 change of mind

Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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  1. Our readingThe step change in AI coding in 2025 came from the harnesses and the tooling around the models, not from the models themselves.

    Their wordsAnd it wasn't actually the models. It was the harnesses. It was all the tooling.

    ↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 3rd of 26 in this recording

  3. Our readingAI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.

    Their wordsIt's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway

    ↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording