AI coding agents
6 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2023 by Sarah Guo · across every show →
Everything said about AI coding agents, oldest first
Jun 8, 2023 bullish
Guo: Autonomous AI agents writing pull requests will see major progress
“I think there are a lot of really interesting ideas that are floating around now from, I think the more obvious like search or to the very fun, like, okay, well, if you just had like, you know, AI Elah, the junior developer that takes any JIRA ticket or shortc…”
Nov 16, 2023 bullish
Albrecht: AI agents will dramatically improve codebase quality across the industry
“I think there'll just be a huge flourishing of much higher quality, better software as a result, not just more software, but just taking the existing software and making it so much better, which will make it so much nicer and more fun to interact with as progr…”
Jul 18, 2024 neutral
Gil: Major engineering cost shifts from AI coding agents remain years away
“I feel, it feels like we're a couple of years away from that though, right? Like there's some things that we can become dramatically more cost efficient on, but you know, at least the existing coding co-pilots and other things give you some efficiency, but not…”
Mar 13, 2025 negative
Dohmke: AI agents remain far from replacing median developers in systems thinking
“I think that's the part where we're far away from agents actually being good enough to take a very rough idea and break it down to small pieces without you as developer or as architect, or even when planning your travel, constantly getting questions back of wh…”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Karpathy: Coding agent failures are user skill issues, not capability limits
“Even if they don't work, I think to a large extent, you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available. Like I just don't, I didn't give good enough inst…”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Karpathy: Parallel AI agents elevate software engineering to macro actions
“It's just like you can move in much larger macro actions. It's not just like, here's a line of code, here's a new function. It's like, here's a new functionality. And delegate it to agent one. Here's a new functionality that's not going to interfere with the o…”