Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone.
Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation.
"I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody.
It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code."
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From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)
i found a github repo that lets you spin up an ai agency with ai employees
engineers, designers, growth marketers, product managers
each role runs as its own agent and they coordinate to ship ideas
10k+ stars in under 7 days
1. engineering (7 agents)
frontend, backend, mobile, ai, devops, prototyping, senior development
2. design (7)
ui/ux, research, architecture, branding, visual storytelling, image generation
3. marketing (8)
growth hacking, content, twitter, tiktok, instagram, reddit, app store
4. product (3)
sprint prioritization, trend research, feedback synthesis
5. project management (5)
production, coordination, operations, experimentation
6. testing (7)
qa, performance analysis, api testing, quality verification
7. support (6)
customer service, analytics, finance, legal, executive reporting
8. spatial computing (6)
xr, visionos, webxr, metal, vision pro
9. specialized (6)
multi agent orchestration, data analytics, sales, distribution
what i like about this approach is the framing
instead of one big ai agent trying to do everything, you structure it more like a company. specialized agents, clear responsibilities, workflows between them
im curious to see what this actually feels like in practice and if its any good (do your own research)
https://t.co/plSvZIaDpr
but as always will share what i learn in public and on @startupideaspod
one thing is for certain and it reminds me
the future belongs to those who tinker with software like this
Software Engineer journey
2019 - learn to code
2020 - automate everything
2021 - AI will assist developers
2022 - AI is just a tool bro
2023 - only bad devs will be replaced
2024 - ok Cursor is actually insane
2025 - Claude writes the whole codebase
2026 - fine… I’ll become a farmer
2027 - robots farming 24/7
2028 - what left ??
anthropic shipped all of these in two weeks:
- claude code security
- voice mode in claude code
- free memory feature
- memory import tool
- claude marketplace
- investment banking plug-in
- wealth management plug-in
- human resources plug-in
- private equity plug-in
- engineering plug-in
- design plug-in
- google calendar integration
- gmail Integration
i can’t prove it but they definitely use claude to build claude.