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Coding agents have crossed a chasm
Coding agents have crossed a chasm Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted for me with autonomous AI coding agents. They’ve gone from a “hey this is pretty neat” curiosity to something I genuinely can’t imagine working without.
But, after I’d spent a solid 45 minutes adding printf s and trying to trace the flow manually I decided on a whim to try asking Claude (Sonnet 4, with extended thinking turned on) for help. I used Chrome dev tools to copy the entire rendered HTML DOM out of the browser, put that in the chat with Claude, and it immediately pinpointed exactly where I was missing an overflow: scroll. Thanks to Ari Grant, Nicholas Jitkoff, Sascha Haeberling, Rahul Patil, Keith Horwood and my new friend Claude who each reviewed a draft of this post.
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