Ex-GitHub Copilot engineer: coding agents speed everything up, yet leave us more work than ever
rakyll · x · 2026-09-21
rakyll, who worked on GitHub Copilot four years ago, shares a first-hand observation: coding agents make everything happen faster, but developers actually end up with more to do because they are unblocked all the time. In a follow-up she adds this is a shared industry experience — tools change, but humans are wired to keep building.
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