Researcher: We used to code better than AI — now the best move is to get out of its way
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-11-07
AI researcher Yuchen Jin reflects that developers used to write better code than AI, but today the most productive thing is to simply get out of the models' way — a one-line summary of the shift from prompting AI to letting agents code autonomously.
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