coding agent

also referred to as: coding agents

7 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2025 by Adarsh Hiremath · across every show →

Everything said about coding agent, oldest first

Feb 20, 2025 bearish
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Hiremath: Software will be commoditized quickly as coding agents improve
“And I think like the implication for software is that software is going to get commoditized very, very quickly as these coding agents get really, really good.”
Adarsh Hiremath Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 30:27 Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 22, 2025 bullish
Insight
Taneja: AI coding agents hold strong pricing power by replacing expensive labor
“This coding agent is essentially a replacement of engineering, right? You start with low end sort of engine junior engineers to more senior engineers. Even a junior engineer makes 80 to a hundred grand a year. So your pricing power there is actually pretty sig…”
Hemant Taneja Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 43:57 General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 24, 2025 bullish
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Shlomo: Margins for AI coding platforms will improve drastically
“I don't think current margins are bad, but I think they're going to get way better.”
Maor Shlomo Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 32:33 Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 9, 2026 bullish
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Acharya: Software markets are shifting from execution tools to thinking tools like Figma
“That, by the way, is sort of ahead of where I think the market is going in terms of moving from products focused on execution, which today are being subsumed by coding agents, to markets focused on thinking, right? And I think a lot of the thinking work is goi…”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 45:26 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Acharya: Coding agents dramatically lower enterprise software switching costs
“But now with coding agents, the complexity of transitioning from SAP to Oracle is dramatically lower, the speed, the risk. So that is how I think coding agents shows up in enterprise software, especially amongst public names. Decrease switching costs, more cus…”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 7:23 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 neutral
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Emberikos: Coding agents are the only domain with clear AI PMF
“So we're, so we only have PMF for coding agents, like, in the industry overall, I would say, right? And then there's some, like, very narrow, narrow other use cases like customer support, et cetera.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 44:00 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2026 positive
Insight
Park: Coding agents improved rapidly due to clear accept/reject reward functions
“The reason why coding agents have had such massive improvement over the years was because their learning, their reward function was extremely clear. If you make a suggestion and your user says accept, fantastic. If they say reject, also very useful. You very q…”
Joon Sung Park Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 17:31 The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
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