Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.
Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.
Software as Wiki, Mutable Software - exe.dev blog
When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki.
Kilo - Pricing
Pricing for Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
AI Code Is Producing a Quality Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
The productivity numbers look great. AI coding tools are everywhere.
Where Did Software Go Wrong? | Jesse Li
Software is broken, but it's not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world.
AI #190: Scion of the Times
The amount of code being written at Anthropic continues to rise exponentially.
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
How Antithesis Turned exe into a Sandbox for Agentic Software Tests - exe.dev blog
Carl Sverre spends a lot of time thinking about how to give AI agents the right amount of power. Give them too little, and they can’t do real work. Give them too much, and they might blow up your tech stack. As a software engineer at Antithesis, an autonomous software testing platform, that question is core to how Sverre thinks about designing tools in the era of advanced AI.
AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog
How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.
The $70B Open Source Software Paradox
It’s no news that over the last 10-15 years, particularly noticeable in the last 5 years, the enterprise software industry has gradually transformed from complex, expensive, closed-source (proprietary) software stacks to extensible/configurable,...
