Coding agents are empowering, but it is not well appreciated that they are setting a new baseline. It will soon not be considered impressive to do all the thing

Coding agents are empowering, but it is not well appreciated that they are setting a new baseline. It will soon not be considered impressive to do all the things that the author did, but expected. And you will not work less but the same hours -- or more, if you don't use agents. Despite this, I think agents are a very welcome new weapon.