its crazy to me people think all ai coding is the same slop as it was in 2024. In the hands of someone who knows what good code looks like, it’s an amazing tool. Opus4.6 writes code i would have written, just faster.
It also thinks a lot faster. Watching it think through and debug complex issues is amazing. It’s exactly how i would have thought through an issue to debug it: it adds tests, debug printfs, and runs tests until it’s fixed. I recently saw it sit through and fix a bug in a streaming zerocopy llm markdown parser im working on for dave, it was amazing.
The only people who think agentic engineering is dumb in 2026 are the people who still think ai coding is copy and pasting things into chatgpt
It also thinks a lot faster. Watching it think through and debug complex issues is amazing. It’s exactly how i would have thought through an issue to debug it: it adds tests, debug printfs, and runs tests until it’s fixed. I recently saw it sit through and fix a bug in a streaming zerocopy llm markdown parser im working on for dave, it was amazing.
The only people who think agentic engineering is dumb in 2026 are the people who still think ai coding is copy and pasting things into chatgpt
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