This is a great summary of the sea change that’s occurred in programming due to AI agents. They were basically hype until December of last year and now they’re reality.

That you can give Claude instructions in English to build an app, configure various settings and take several actions which it not only executes perfectly but then figures out how to address errors on its own is magical.

It’s easy to dismiss this if you haven’t used the latest models but writing code is effectively free.

@carnage4life reminded of the ST:TNG S02E03 "Elementary, Dear Data"

"Geordi realizes that when he asked the computer to create the program he had asked for an adversary who could defeat Data, not Sherlock Holmes; as a result, the computer gave the holodeck character, Professor Moriarty, the intelligence and cunning needed to challenge Data, plus the ability to access the ship's computer."