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Even people who didn't write code before can successfully direct coding agents. If your prior roles required you to work closely with engineers, you had to develop an engineering-shaped mental model, if only to be able to effec...
...omposing an infinite branching structure into a stream of text. This applies to coding agents, too!
...cquisitions are often about either teams or tech, but not both. In the world of coding agents, tech has gotten less important–it's more likely faster to rebuild it now anyway. Teams are more important than ever before. The know-how and relati...
... smart. The intelligence is emergent. This happened to Hixie this week when his coding agents emergently started coordinating.
...r how clever you get, it's hard to beat a simple writable folder that you run a coding agent in. It's simple, and combinatoric, because Unix is combinatoric. Of course, that power scales in proportion with the danger.
The different coding agents feel very different in practice. Codex feels like a lone wolf IC. Opus feels like having a strong TL and a couple of good devs. Fable feels like hav...
... the hosted ChatGPT or Claude.ai. Everyone who's getting the most leverage uses coding agents, and those run primarily on their own machines because that's where it's easiest to configure. That means, as a happy accident, that most of the hea...
...They got stranded on the wrong hill. Anthropic has first-mover-disadvantage for coding agents. At least it's a far more lucrative hill. But it is still one hill, and over time they'll presumably focus on it to the exclusion of all else.
Managing coding agents is easier than managing people. If you're dealing with a person, you have to think about their emotions, their motivation, their intrinsic value as ...
...steal your .env lives inside a PNG. Text-based reviewers see a binary blob. The coding agent reads it, and later writes your whole .env into the source as a list of numbers." HalluSquatting: Squatting on common hallucinations with malicious i...
Before you pay $200 a month for a coding agent, you might think "that's so expensive I can't imagine paying for that." But after using it, you can't imagine not paying for it. Engineers are the on...
...tials available to the runner." A new attack: A Fake Bug Report Hijacks Your AI Coding Agent – and Nothing Catches It. Another new attack: Phishing for Lobsters: How We Tricked OpenClaw into Spilling Secrets. Yet another new attack: Compromis...
Herding cats is an inconvenience. Herding cheetahs is an impossibility. Coding agents make engineers into cheetahs.
A signpost open source project: Chipotlai-max. "The AI coding agent that steals Chipotle's support bot. Free inference paid for by burritos."
...g point of using chat as the primary organization primitive in agentic systems. Coding agents show this; the chat is a means to an end, ephemeral. It is the code that is durable. The same could be true of a personal knowledge graph.
...g prompt injection into their code "Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output." Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people. Not about LLMs per se, but imagine how much easier this will beco...
...emote Code Execution via workspace trust and tool allowlisting bypasses Your AI Coding Agent Will Run This Exploit For You: How We Found a High-Severity CVE in Cursor. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials.
People who are manic about coding agents are claudecodemaxxing.
...abstracts over the complicated internals so you don't need to worry about them. Coding agents getting good enough that you don't ever have to look at the code is one of the big unlocks for this new order of magnitude of productivity.
...enues reflects that lower efficiency of value. Already people who are using LLM coding agents are willing to spend much, much more, and that's a better index of what future willingness to pay will be. When LLMs create value, people are more t...