Dev: coding agents got useful and now I'm working 5x harder
rakyll · x · 2026-09-21
Well-known engineer rakyll (ex-Google) says her workload has gone up 5x since coding agents became genuinely useful: "Weren't these supposed to take software engineers out of the critical path? Now it just feels like every part of the stack needs to be rebuilt, and it has to happen now." A counterintuitive take on how AI amplifies rather than reduces engineering work.
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