Coding agents now good enough to build your own ultra-specialized one-off tools
giffmana · x · 2026-10-26
giffmana observes that coding agents have crossed a threshold: hyper-specialized tools that nobody would have bothered building in the past can now be quickly made for a single personal use case. He cites an example of someone building their own bespoke software with Claude.
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