> Coding agents are sirens, luring you in with their speed of code generation and jagged intelligence, often completing a simple task with high quality at breakneck velocity. Things start falling apart when you think: "Oh golly, this thing is great. Computer, do my work!".
But the rough edges are temporary. Coding agents are becoming superhuman along certain dimensions; the progress is staggering. As Andrej Karpathy put it, anything measurable or legible can be optimized by AI. The gaps will close fast.
The harder question is HCI. How do you expose this kind of intelligence in interfaces that actually align with human values? That's the design problem worth obsessing over.
But the rough edges are temporary. Coding agents are becoming superhuman along certain dimensions; the progress is staggering. As Andrej Karpathy put it, anything measurable or legible can be optimized by AI. The gaps will close fast.
The harder question is HCI. How do you expose this kind of intelligence in interfaces that actually align with human values? That's the design problem worth obsessing over.