45-year veteran coder calls agentic coding the biggest productivity jump ever
JoshuaJBouw · x · 2026-10-18
Veteran developers reflect on the paradigm shift. Bendiken (33 years coding, 29 professional, from bootloaders and compilers to blockchains) notes software engineering has always had extreme rates of change and has adapted to "herding instead of hacking." Fizzychicken, a game coder with 45 years of experience from hand-written assembly to UE 5.8, calls the shift to agentic coding "intoxicating" and the biggest productivity jump he has ever experienced.
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