Agents have become co-workers that can build features from a single prompt
EricBuess · x · 2026-07-28
Agents are increasingly acting like co-workers, not just tools
The quoted post argues that agents have gone from novelty to something that feels like a real teammate in roughly a year. In many cases, the author says they can now ask an agent to build a feature end-to-end from a single prompt, and it actually works.
It’s mostly an opinionated observation rather than a technical announcement, but it captures a broader shift in how capable coding agents are becoming in day-to-day development workflows.
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