Locke

The biggest programming skill in 2026: - Reading code you didn’t write. - Understanding why it works . - Knowing where it breaks. Anyone can generate code. Very few can debug reality.

Hot take: AI made building easy. Now distribution is the new bottleneck. Agree or disagree?

Yeah CAR is very much so for people who have already spent thousands of hours talking to agents and looking at thinking traces and tool calls I'd say the lowest hanging fruit for parallelization is to add a planning and review loop. Basically while feature 1 is being worked on, start discussing feature 2 with a 2nd agent, but keep it to discussion only. Most agent interfaces offer a plan mode. Once the implementation agent is opening a PR or whatever your workflow is, then have the second agent start implementing. Rinse and repeat. During this stage the important thing is to look at the agent thinking traces and tool calls and learn where the agent tends to get confused, which models are good at what, what harnesses have what failure modes, etc... Once you make it past that stage, and are comfortable running more than 2 I recommend using something like the codex desktop app where you can see when different agents finish and you get a notification so you don't have to tab back and forth all the time. Once you are comfortable at this stage then CAR is the next step 😉 Basically the high level skill you need to develop is something I call model empathy. You need to learn what it's like to be an agent. Once you've mastered that skill, managing an army is easy. It's just like learning to be an engineering manager for humans.

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built a fully functioning web app in minutes. http://localhost:3000/ check it out Don’t forget to leave a comment.