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"If you look at how people cook coding agents today, they have an industrial kitchen: large-scale reinforcement learning systems with many components for efficiency spanning hundreds of GPUs, complex repository mixing, and large teams working on all angles to optimize the data pipeline for training. For the family of Open Coding Agents we released today from Ai2, we had the equivalent of a hot plate and a frying pan: 32 GPUs and five bright-eyed researchers who wanted to cook state-of-the-art coding agents."

"If you are reading this, you probably feel the FOMO. Maybe you have seen the Twitter threads about coding agents completing entire features in minutes. Maybe a colleague mentioned they are “10x more productive” now — or “Influencers” saying AGI is here and you need to learn their particular thing now. Maybe you tried Claude Code and felt confused about why the magic everyone talks about is not working for you. This blog post is for those who want to cut through the hype and understand what actually works, what does not, and how to think about using agents to automate your own job further and further to be more productive."

"I have been using agents — primarily Claude Code — for eight months to automate my own work. What you will read here is not speculation or theory. It is the product of hundreds of hours of experimentation, many failures, and some surprising successes. As a professor who does not write much code anymore, my perspective is different from the software engineering discourse that dominates Twitter. Most of my agent use is actually for writing — blog posts, grant proposals, meta reviews. While these problems might be non-traditional, they provide the exact view of how to use coding agents for all kinds of tasks even beyond coding itself. This helps you understand how far you can go in all different directions of agent-use."

"If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skeptical. This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective that is often missing in the current discourse: the physical reality of computation."

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