AnalysisDevelopersOctober 9, 2026

Essay argues coding agents, not models, are the bottleneck

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Michael Lynch writes that agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex stayed bad since February 2025 while models such as GPT Astra, Claude Sonnet and GLM-5.3 do the heavy lifting. He cites OpenCode splitting a 1.5k-line passphrase feature into 10 subtasks and agents declaring tasks finished early.

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