What Edwin Chen thinks about coding agents
Founder and CEO of the AI data company Surge AI; earlier a machine-learning engineer at Twitter, Google and Facebook.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Edwin Chen has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsimagine promoting an engineer because their unit tests pass. that's basically how we've been evaluating coding agents.
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Our readingCoding agents are very good at junior-level engineering when given a well-defined ticket.
Their wordscoding agents are getting very good at being L3s. give them a well-defined ticket and they can write excellent code.