Future of coding agents
Soon we will all be using coding agents. Hundreds of them. The best software engineers will be the best multitaskers. The ones who can architect a great application, split it into parallelizable work and guide a team of agents to build it.
Agents reward expertise and clarity of thought.
We will still need software engineers. Our jobs will just be different.
Companies will use a variety of coding agents just like companies use a variety of IDEs today.
One team will prefer Claude Code. Another will use Devin exclusively. Another team will build their own agent, specialized to writing bullet proof Terraform.
The coding experiences that win will deeply understand:
- How to build great UX so engineers understand the work agents are doing
- How to build great agents
A winning experience must have both. Great agents without great UX will be increasingly harder to use as agents do more and more of the work.