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True, if you are in a big company with lots of people, you won't benefit much from the improved throughput of agentic coding. A greenfield startup however with

True, if you are in a big company with lots of people, you won't benefit much from the improved throughput of agentic coding. A greenfield startup however with agentic coding in it's DNA will be able to run loops around a big company with lots of human bottlenecks. The question becomes, will greenfield startups, doing agentic coding from the ground up, replace big companies with these human bottlenecks like you describe? What does a startup, built using agentic coding with proper engineering practices, look like when it becomes a big corporation & succeeds?

scuff3d 1y ago
That's not my point at all. Doesn't matter where you work, if a developer is working in a code base with a bunch of agents, they are always going to be the bottleneck. All the agent threads have to merge back to the developer thread at some point. The more agent threads the more context switching that has to occur, the smaller and smaller the productivity improvement gets, until you eventually end up in the negative. I can believe a single developer with one agent doing some small stuff and using some other LLM tools can get a modest productivity boost. But having 5 or 10 of these things doing shit all at once? No way. Any gains are offset by having to merge and quality check all that work.