2026 is officially entering the john deere factory farm era of coding: with swarms of ai agents that code, review, test, and work together.
The future of coding interfaces is not single agent repls or IDEs, its agent dashboards.
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John deer factory farm.....
Whats that???
I think he means when we started using more machine/energy power to farm rather than muscle (animal and human). Production goes way up.
we’ve been cutting down bugs manually with a scythe. agents are starting to get so good they can work through the backlog semiautonomously en masse. We just need dashboards to manage them now
Do you have a source? Need to know more
Interesting.
yegge mentions it near the end here. lots of hot takes in this one, which i am slowly starting to believe that they are probably directionally correct
Oh you're using "John Deere" without irony... Not the #enshittification narrative surrounding the fact that it's illegal to repair John Deere tractors because of proprietary software?
It will be the same: massive productivity increase, but you need to pay and subscribe to the best agent, which will soon turn out to be a monopoly. One company will run the platform for coding everything worldwide.
Sounds awesome for them.
it will be wild when the data centers go down and world productivity halts
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Ait thanks gonna listen to it shortly 🤙
I ran out of tokens once and forgot how to type
Fascinating.
This is the interface he mentioned he build: 
Not sure but this might be the agentmail tool he mentioned:
In my ciurse there was a dude who had his agents communicate through a slack channel with eachother.
Gonna try to reproduce this tomorrow
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What programming focused channels or podcasts do you listen to?
i don't really