What Dex Horthy thinks about code generation

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Founder of the agent company HumanLayer, author of the 12-factor agents principles, and the engineer who put the name "context engineering" on the practice.

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15 Jul 2026

Our readingIt is no longer worth not reading the code in exchange for the occasional two-week hand fix, because the volume of code we can now generate has gone up ten to a hundred times.

Their wordsAnd uh it's still worth it's still worth not reading the code for most of the time at the cost of every once in a while I'm going to have to spend two weeks fixing an issue by hand. And I don't believe that anymore because I think the amount of code we're able to write now is actually like 10xed or 100xed and I think the problem's just getting worse.

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