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David Singleton

What David Singleton thinks about coding agents

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Engineering leader; Stripe's chief technology officer in 2023, earlier 11 years at Google, where he was a VP of Engineering; later co-founded /dev/agents, renamed Dreamer.

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  1. Our readingCoding agents have moved from smarter autocomplete to a delegate-to relationship, like eager interns.

    Their wordsIf 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.

    ↗Coding agents have crossed a chasmblog.singleton.io 1st of 2 in this piece

  3. Our readingFully autonomous coding agents were not good enough until recently.

    Their wordsBut 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.

    ↗Coding agents have crossed a chasmblog.singleton.io 2nd of 2 in this piece