What Gergely Orosz thinks about coding agents
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWriting code by hand at 37signals is now an exceptional state. It is like seeing a bug in Sentry: something here went wrong; why was the agent not able to produce what we wanted?
↗The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debateblog.pragmaticengineer.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAgent-generated PRs have exploded in size. 9x the last 8 months (!!) No signs of slowing down.
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsThey sure feel they are reducing human-to-human interaction via the code, I'll be honest
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