@bentlegen: to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agent…
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Developer Ben Tlegen observes that building truly good software requires extensive personal use, but warns that many developers are now spending more time inside AI coding agents than in the actual applications they are creating.
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to make actually good software, you have to use it a lot
but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they’re building - so they won’t
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