The key question: will LLMs just compound crap code quickly, or will it accumulate and accrete in useful ways?
...s. The race is on to find a robustly default-converging way of working with LLM coding agents.
Topic: coding agent
28 chunks · 22 episodes
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- coding agent appears in 28 chunks across 22 episodes, from 2025-04-28 to 2026-09-15.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/15/26 (2026-09-15), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with wild west, Cursor, and Microsoft, while by chunk count it sits between coordinate and search engine; its yearly rank moved from #123 in 2025 to #18 in 2026.
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The right mindset to use coding agents to their fullest potential: "I don't know if it's going to work, but let's try it!"
The right mindset to use coding agents to their fullest potential: "I don't know if it's going to work, but let's try it!"[ef] If you have the mindset of "That might not work, let's not t...
Why did coding agents take off first?
Why did coding agents take off first? Two reasons: 1) Code is ground-truth-able. An agent can poke around in Playwright and see if it works. That means the agent doesn't ...
Is there a smiling curve for how to use coding agents?
Is there a smiling curve for how to use coding agents? Similar to self-driving. A system where the person is fully paying attention: safe. A system where the person never has to pay attention: safe. Any...
Who would have guessed we'd need to understand psychology to write code.
...ed it for an engineering manager but not an IC. Now even ICs need it to get the coding agents to produce code.
You can now code even with fractured attention.
...an now code even with fractured attention. It used to take deep focus. Now with coding agents it doesn't! The coding agent has infinite patience and keeps track of all of the working memory. You can juggle multiple threads of execution or int...
All of the coding agents are nothing without Claude.
All of the coding agents are nothing without Claude. They're just a little wrapper around Claude. But this feels like mainly just an immaturity of the market. We haven't see...
A failure mode for LLM coding agents: the cascading self-destruction debug loop.
A failure mode for LLM coding agents: the cascading self-destruction debug loop. I had a session with Claude Code on a personal project that did a pretty good job (with a few nudges) of...