<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Coding Agents on Patrick Dahlke</title><link>https://patrickdahlke.com/tags/coding-agents/</link><description>Recent content in Coding Agents on Patrick Dahlke</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://patrickdahlke.com/tags/coding-agents/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Code Got Cheap. The Hard Part Didn't.</title><link>https://patrickdahlke.com/posts/code-got-cheap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://patrickdahlke.com/posts/code-got-cheap/</guid><description>I had an agent knock out a feature this morning that would have cost me a day in 2022. The tokens cost less than my coffee. Then I spent the rest of the day in calls about what to build next.
That is the story. The cheap part got cheaper. The expensive part didn&amp;rsquo;t.
The work was never the typing Brooks said this in 1975. Weinberg said it in 1971. Software is the residue of a group of humans arguing about what the system should do.</description></item></channel></rss>