AI coding agents

also referred to as: ai coding agent

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 16, 2025 by Yoko Li · across every show →

Everything said about AI coding agents, oldest first

May 16, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Li: AI coding agents still assume the current year is 2023
“When you ask the coding agent, when do you think today is? It's always like, 20, 23. And then all the specs that we'll give you are from, like, 20, 24 at best, depending on when the knowledge cutoff is.”
Yoko Li May 16, 2025 ▶ 9:56 Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Masad: Watching AI agents code is like John Carmack on cocaine
“It's like watching John Carmack on cocaine.”
Amjad Masad Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 21:23 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Masad: AI coding agents run faster than humans, but not instantaneously
“It is actually, I would say it is faster, but not that much significantly faster. It's not at computer speed, right?”
Amjad Masad Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 21:09 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
Aug 17, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gaybrick: Using AI Merely to Cut Costs Shorts a Company's Potential
“I think a lot of companies have skewed in that direction where they've seen this new, you know, agentic efficiency and power as a way to optimize cost structure. You've saw some layoffs, you saw, you know, companies shrinking OpEx. And our belief is that it's …”
Will Gaybrick Aug 17, 2026 ▶ 12:41 Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
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