Thin Harness, Fat Skills (via @garrytan)

kept by eddie apr 13

Steve Yegge claims engineers using AI coding agents achieve 10x-100x productivity over Cursor users and roughly 1000x over 2005-era Googlers.

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
Gas Town is a hastily-built vibe-coded agent orchestrator that, despite its chaos and high costs, reveals emerging patterns for future software engineering with AI agents at scale.
also on Steve Yegge, Cursor, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
The Productivity-Experience Paradox - Annie Vella
AI coding assistants boost engineers’ perceived productivity while eroding developer experience, especially flow state, revealing a growing decoupling of output and inner work satisfaction.
also on Steve Yegge, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools