Coding agents are better than you think

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Many developers say AI isn’t good enough to build with seriously. That judgment sounds level-headed. It’s increasingly based on an outdated frame of reference.

Coding agents make mistakes. That’s beyond dispute. But something structural has changed in recent months: the production layer of software has been extremely compressed. Tasks that used to take days or weeks are now — when properly scoped — completed in hours or minutes.

That difference is underestimated.

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Coding agents are better than you think