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Agentic Coding Ascension Notes – Machine Learning (Theory)

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I’ve found agentic coding (with Anthropic’s Claude) to be something between an x10 and x100 multiplier on what I personally can do in a software engineering vein. This seems to be significantly more than what other folks are observing, so I wanted to share some notes on how I got there in case of broader interest. Is it real? I believe it is. It’s always hard to measure exactly what is productivity with “lines of code” being a famously inaccurate and undesirable metric. Given that, a few qualitative observations help. One of the first things I did when picking up agentic coding was apply it to Vowpal Wabbit, a codebase that I know quite well. There I prepared the 9.11 release which is now broadly available. There were about 150 issues to deal with and many others that surfaced in the process of building towards a release. I have some real experience working with a team of engineers on this codebase, so I can say with some authority that these issues were hard–they lingered for a long t

I’ve found agentic coding (with Anthropic’s Claude ) to be something between an x10 and x100 multiplier on what I personally can do in a software engineering vein. This seems to be significantly more than what other folks are observing, so I wanted to share some notes on how I got there in case of broader interest. Is it real? I believe it is. It’s always hard to measure exactly what is productivity with “lines of code” being a famously inaccurate and undesirable metric. Given that, a few qualitative observations help. One of the first things I did when picking up

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