What Steve Yegge thinks about AI agents

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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11 Mar 2026

Our readingOrchestration was the obvious next step, because chat is completions in a loop and agents are chat in a loop.

Their wordsif chat is completions in a loop, basically, and agents are basically chat in a loop, well, then we're going to put we're going to put agents in a loop, and that'll be an orchestrator, right?

↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 11th of 25 in this recording