korrents
Dex Horthy

What Dex Horthy thinks about developer tools

@dex-horthy · 26 positions · On ppll ↗

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.

Dex Horthy did not write this page.

We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.

Filter developer tools · Newest first
Topic
All 26coding agents 13LLMs 9software quality 6design 3vibe coding 3developer tools 2Anthropic 1benchmarks 1code generation 1
6 more topics
documentation 1hiring 1infrastructure 1reinforcement learning 1transformers 1writing 1
Sort
NewestOldest

Only Dex Horthy on developer tools. See everyone on developer tools

2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Dex Horthy has said — not written or endorsed by them.

2 positions so far — this page is not yet offered to search engines.

  1. Our readingThe valuable form of loop engineering is a slow loop — a nightly cron job that fixes one thing and opens one pull request — not a redesign of your whole infrastructure around agents.

    infrastructure

    Their wordsSo I think the the thing I'm most excited is actually like what we call like iterated loops or like slow loops where we basically have a cron job. We have the loop the the the structure of the loop is really easy. It's like run this llinter fix one thing commit and push and then we run that every night in our GitHub actions and we wake up every morning to one PR that makes the codebase a little bit better.

    ↗Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe IDE of the future has to be rethought from the ground up for agents, rather than being a text editor with an agents tab bolted on.

    Their wordsbasically the idea is like the IDE of the future needs to be rethought from the ground up for agents. And it might not even be a like I don't know a lot of editors kind of started with the text field and bolted on an agents tab.

    ↗Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording