Developer jokes he's no longer coding, just running a 'frontier model escort service'
CtrlAltDwayne · x · 2026-10-13
CtrlAltDwayne jokes that after constantly switching between Devin, Claude Code, and Codex, he no longer considers himself a developer: 'I'm basically running a frontier model escort service. I manage a rotating roster of AI agents.' A relatable take on how AI coding tools are shifting engineers from writing code to orchestrating agents.
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