Coding agents are general agents: The Bitter Lesson applied
amasad · x · 2026-08-15
Replit CEO retweets and comments that the world is just realizing coding agents are actually general agents. This aligns with the 'Bitter Lesson': writing and executing code will likely outperform years of handcrafting vertical-specific agents with expert knowledge. The author suggests program synthesis is essentially a form of scalable search.
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