Coding agents
AI agents built to write, review and deploy code autonomously. Every AI Founder Weekly story on coding agents, newest first. 7 stories since October 2026.
- Rauch says 60% of Vercel deploys are now agentic
Vercel's own docs see up to 83% of pageviews coming from agents, and Rauch says that share rises the more they optimize for them.
- DHH's adversarial review is one sentence typed into Codex
Two coding agents, no orchestration layer, one instruction each way.
- Theo ships tsc-rs after $400k of Codex got nowhere
Five months of agent work, two models, and a 20x gap in what the winning run cost.
- DHH says a language agents write badly is in trouble
Rauch agrees and says the old rule of picking what humans enjoy writing no longer holds.
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- DHH had agents rebuild Campfire in Elixir, Go and Rust
Ruby came out slowest, and Guillermo Rauch says the old reason to ignore that result just stopped applying.
- Vercel hits $600M ARR with agents half of new business
Coding agents went from under 3% of Vercel's new business at the start of the year to roughly half, according to The Information.
- Scott Wu says Factory's accusations about Cognition are untrue
Two coding agent CEOs now give flatly incompatible accounts of the same advisor.
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