> The coding agents got really good
It's since november 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good".
All I observe they got better at tool call and answering questions about big codebases, especially if the question has a vague pattern to search, and they're superuseful for that! For generating production code even with a lot of steering and baby sitting?
Absolutely not, not quite there not even close in my experience.
But we should stop talking about 1s and 0s, especially with marketing hype trains, there exist a gradient of capabalities that agents have that really depends on the intricacies of the codebase you're working on, I think everyone has yet to discover how to better apply these tools in their day to day work.
But that totally collides with the current narrative, that flattens out our work to be always the same and that can be automated easily in each case, it's not!
That's why the debate is so polizered imo, there isn't a shared experience
It's since november 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good".
All I observe they got better at tool call and answering questions about big codebases, especially if the question has a vague pattern to search, and they're superuseful for that! For generating production code even with a lot of steering and baby sitting?
Absolutely not, not quite there not even close in my experience.
But we should stop talking about 1s and 0s, especially with marketing hype trains, there exist a gradient of capabalities that agents have that really depends on the intricacies of the codebase you're working on, I think everyone has yet to discover how to better apply these tools in their day to day work.
But that totally collides with the current narrative, that flattens out our work to be always the same and that can be automated easily in each case, it's not!
That's why the debate is so polizered imo, there isn't a shared experience