Unfolding... Urgently

According to a recent Stack Overflow report, a significant percentage of engineers have not adopted AI coding tools. Barely 50% riding faster horses, less than 20% riding in Waymos. Forget about agentic building, they haven’t even adopted AI coding.

The unfolding of capabilities has been incredible. We’ve evolved from copy paste (ChatGPT) to writing each line of code faster (GitHub Copilot) to agentic coding (Cursor) to agentic building (Claude Code). However, there’s a dichotomy at play throughout the unfolding of agentic building — the pace has been both incredibly fast and yet gradual. So slow in fact, that for an engineer not to have adopted agentic building practices borders on negligence.

Yield Potential

Geoffrey Huntley’s ‘ngmi’ post is precisely the point in time that my sense of urgency around this unfolding crystallized:

… it’s not just the company they were working for that has been changing at breakneck speed to adapt to new emerging threats to business models. It’s every company – the software industry has changed. Seemingly overnight.

What occurred to me is that there might be engineers who had tried the tools and discarded AI as hype. Engineers who assessed the capabilities at a point in time and formed an unbudging lackluster opinion, instead of seeing AI capabilities as a compound effect operating in a continuum.

Geoffrey followed his ’ngmi’ post with a really great post, ‘stdlib’, which to me seemed immediately actionable with my team. Folks adopted Cursor. Engineers started sensing my urgency.

The adoption of Cursor wasn’t really the point though. The point was the compounding effect to where we have Claude Code agent swarms and sub-agents. The point was the urgency of the situation, an area-under-the-curve opportunity — yield potential — from urgently moving engineers along the spectrum of adoption…

| bespoke | _______ | faster | _______ | agentic | ______ | agentic  |
| coding  |         | lines  |         | coding  |        | building |

… to where we are today:

$ claude -p "summarize ai coding stats -- how much code was written by AI in the past 2 weeks"                                                                               ✔  12:52:09 

## AI Coding Stats - Past 2 Weeks

**100% AI-Generated Code**
- **8 commits** with Claude Code signatures
- **32,784 lines added**, 6,263 lines deleted  
- **Net +26,521 lines** of code
- All commits contain `🤖 Generated with Claude Code` signatures

Just Build It

You can just build it. I dragged my feet for over a decade on reclaiming my internet voice, life’s been busy, blah blah blah, excuses. Then last night Claude deployed my blog for me. The codebase pontification doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is your level of agency coupled with your ability to grok the tech. Just build it.