Coding agents have crossed a chasm
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Coding agents have crossed a chasm
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Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#2I agree they’re better but author should add add
“Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service”
at the top of and article promoting said agents.
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#3I agree they’re better but author should add add “Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service” at the top of and article promoting said agents.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#4I agree they’re better but author should add add “Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service” at the top of and article promoting said agents.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
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Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#5I agree they’re better but author should add add “Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service” at the top of and article promoting said agents.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Always super helpful to post more guidelines on how to use LLMs more effectively!
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#6I agree they’re better but author should add add “Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of a company that sells agents as a service” at the top of and article promoting said agents.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Absolutely — but I also think there’s a strong resistance to managers saying “AI is good, really”.
The experience of long-term software engineers (e.g. antirez) who don’t have a horse in the AI race tends to line up much better with my own.
Also really like this one: https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-wit...
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Absolutely — but I also think there’s a strong resistance to managers saying “AI is good, really”. The experience of long-term software engineers (e.g. antirez) who don’t have a horse in the AI race tends to line up much better with my own. Also really like this one: https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-wit...
Long-term software engineers do have an anti-horse in the AI race - a lot of us eventually could be replaced by a coding agent.
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Absolutely — but I also think there’s a strong resistance to managers saying “AI is good, really”. The experience of long-term software engineers (e.g. antirez) who don’t have a horse in the AI race tends to line up much better with my own. Also really like this one: https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-wit...
This one seems really sloppy and confused; he describes three "modes of vibe coding" that involve looking at the code and therefore aren't vibe coding at all, as the definition he quoted immediately previously from Karpathy makes clear. Maybe he's writing his code by hand and letting Claude write his blog posts.
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#9Was this article written by AI? If I argue with it, am I arguing with a real person? Is it written by a corporate shill? Again, if I argue with it, am I talking to a wall?
AI (and before that, corporations) makes skepticism more and more a basic survival skill.
Since this is partly an experience report, it is only as trustworthy as its author, whoever that is. What is this person risking by writing it?
The content seems plausible to me. However, what I’m missing here is:
- how does he test?
- how does he keep himself sharp while his tools are doing so much?
- How does he model the failure modes of this approach, or does he just feel it?
I am not having the same feeling of success as this guy is as I experiment with the same tech. Maybe he’s better than me at using it. Or maybe he’s easily impressed.
Re: Coding agents have crossed a chasm
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
Absolutely — but I also think there’s a strong resistance to managers saying “AI is good, really”. The experience of long-term software engineers (e.g. antirez) who don’t have a horse in the AI race tends to line up much better with my own. Also really like this one: https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-wit...
Not OP, and I don't have specific stake in any AI companies, but IMHO (as someone doing web-related things for a living (as a developer, team lead, "architect", product manager, consultant, and manager) since 1998, I think we pretty much all of us have skin in the game, whether or not we back a particular horse.