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What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?

From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.

This is no doubt putting absolutely enormous strain on the infrastructure behind the scenes, which reminds me a lot of the first days of broadband when the ISPs really struggled to handle peak time loads on their interconnects. My recommendation is to really keep up to date with the all the developments and try and be as curious as possible - I learnt this the hard way by totally discounting Claude Code as a dead end until I tried it properly for a few hours and realised how powerful it was compared to a lot of the other approaches I'd seen. I don't think we're in a transition period heading towards stability any time soon and it feels like there is still so much low hanging fruit to improve agents on a tooling level, never mind what would be possible with much faster models.

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