Coding Agents Changed the Question: From 'Simplest Thing' to 'Most Ambitious Thing'
davidfromkansas · x · 2026-09-14
A concise developer observation: before coding agents, the question was "What's the simplest thing I can build and validate quickly?" With coding agents today, it's become "How do I build the most maximally ambitious thing in the same amount of time?"
The real shift isn't throughput—it's that AI coding tools change engineers' default project selection, moving the bottleneck from implementation ability to ambition and validation.
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