SMRTR ProgrammingJul 5, 2026lobste.rs

Thoughts on coding agents

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Coding agents don't replace direction — they compress the distance between a clear intent and a working result. Developers who already know what they want move faster than ever, while those without that clarity get lost quickly. The deeper shift is organizational: agents collapse execution costs so dramatically that individual engineers can now bypass the traditional permission-and-coordination overhead that large organizations depend on.

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