Garry Tan: Only ~1% of engineers let agents ship features — it should grow 100x
garrytan · x · 2026-11-15
Garry Tan estimates only 5–10%, maybe 1%, of engineers worldwide are truly having AI agents build features end-to-end, and says this practice should grow 100x. Lauren adds she now lets agents merge their own pull requests.
Tan stresses it can't happen overnight: it requires investment in encoding what human code review would catch into guardrails, constraints, static analysis, and tooling — that foundation is what creates enough trust in agents to write good code.
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