Developer Watches a Lead Agent Edit Code Itself: "Mild Shock"
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-28
Developer Sauers shared a screenshot of a lead agent using an edit tool to modify code itself — the diff shows the agent refactoring encoding/grouping logic, adding an ek lambda key function and reworking enc/groups/prefix handling. His first reaction was "mild shock" as agent-driven self-editing becomes routine.
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