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Kent C. Dodds

What Kent C. Dodds thinks about coding agents

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  1. Our readingConnecting an agent to Kody in one agent tool and then switching the main driver to another tool is likely suboptimal, though not yet backed by numbers.

    Their wordsI don't yet have numbers to back this up, but I gotta believe that someone connecting their agent to Kody in one agent and then switching their main driver to another somewhere else is suboptimal.

    ↗@kentcdodds on Xx.com

  2. 9 days earlier

  3. Our readingAnyone mourning the loss of writing code by hand should try falling in love with solving problems instead — that may be what they loved the whole time.

    Their wordsIf you're lamenting writing code by hand like something you love is being taken away from you, see if you can fall in love with solving problems instead. Maybe you'll find out that's what you really loved the whole time

    ↗@kentcdodds on Xx.com

  4. 6 months earlier

  5. Our readingAI coding agents have made redesigning existing systems cheap enough that developers actually redesign instead of living with a flawed design.

    designAI agents

    Their wordsAI agents make redesigns cheap. The reason I could go through three rounds of "build, ship, regret, redesign" in a matter of days is that the agent did most of the implementation work.

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