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title: "Promoting AI agents"
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date: "2026-07-17T06:23:07.062Z"
created: "2026-07-17T06:23:07.062Z"
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# Promoting AI agents

## Takeaways

- **DHH's stance shift:** agents "came alive" when given tools beyond reasoning — terminal, tests, web search, **Agent Skills** in plain English.
- **Terminal harness > in-editor autocomplete:** autonomous agents feel like a team you review; Copilot/Cursor-style completion "steals the keyboard" mid-thought.
- **Promotion granted:** current models (Opus 4.5, Codex 5, Gemini 3, MiniMax M2.1, GLM-4.7) can produce **production-grade** contributions to real codebases.
- **Not pure vibe coding:** supervised collaboration is here today; 90%+ agent-written code claims don't match DHH's quality bar.
- **Tooling:** uses **OpenCode** (multi-model terminal harness); becoming default in **Omarchy** next version.
- **Call to action:** try real work on Opus et al. via OpenCode — "most exciting thing since the internet."

## Notes

HEY World post (Feb 2026). Bridges Lex Fridman podcast sentiment (anti-autocomplete) with new agent paradigm. Acknowledges hype vs. profession uncertainty but argues engineers shouldn't sit this out.

## Open questions

- What % of Basecamp/HEY code is agent-written under DHH's supervised model?
- OpenCode vs. Claude Code vs. Codex for Rails/monolith workflows?