Coding agents ask questions you didn’t think to ask
One thing I always do when I prompt a coding agent is to tell it to ask me any questions that it might have about what I’ve asked it to do. (I need to add this to my default system prompt…) And, holy mackerel, if it doesn’t ask good questions. It almost always asks me things that I should have thought of myself.
Coding agents mean 10x more great ideas
If you can get a coding agent to code your idea in two hours, then you could undoubtedly produce many more ideas over the course of a month or a year. If you can add a major feature to your existing app in a day, then you could add many more major features to your app in a month than you could before. When coding is no longer the bottleneck, you will be limited not by your ability to code but by your ability to come up with ideas for software.
Ultimately, this last point is the real kicker. We no longer have to ask, “Can I code this?” Instead, we can ask ourselves, “What can I build?” If you can add a dozen features a month, or build six new applications a week, the real question becomes, “Do I have enough good ideas to fill out my work day?”
