







I'm starting to realize how much the VC + founder discourse circuits are confusing a lot of normal people about AI.Specifically: Anyone smart enough to do anything with a coding agent does not really need to pay for any of the 28 hot software services/platforms associated with…— Justin Murphy (@jmrphy) November 2, 2026
On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more

Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

luca. ∆ИƉЯƐΛ on Twitter / X
People keep saying AI coding agents can only build basic, cookie-cutter apps. I decided to prove them wrong.For my first major public demo, I spent some time pushing @Replit 's AI agent to its absolute limit. The result? I rebuilt macOS entirely on the web. No templates. No… pic.twitter.com/0DNTDpp0aA— luca. ∆ИƉЯƐΛ (@agi2asi) March 4, 2026
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology

100x more programmers
AI could create a billion new programmers. But who controls what they build? Explore why open infrastructure, simpler networking, and freedom from AI vendor lock-in matter.

100x more programmers
AI could create a billion new programmers. But who controls what they build? Explore why open infrastructure, simpler networking, and freedom from AI vendor lock-in matter.

100x more programmers
AI could create a billion new programmers. But who controls what they build? Explore why open infrastructure, simpler networking, and freedom from AI vendor lock-in matter.

Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers - July 2025 | Peter Steinberger
Fresh insights on AI-assisted development: practical experiences with Claude Code and the evolving landscape of full-breadth developers in the age of AI

AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime
It all started with J.A.R.V.I.S.

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding
The head of AI coding platform Cursor on what’s next for programming, whether AGI is imminent, and competing with Anthropic and OpernAI.

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

How to harness AI
"Coding agents" are complicated but intelligible
