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YesCursor · 31 Dec 2025

The only reason I was able to finish rewrites of the backend, frontend, and build an SLO sub-system is because of coding agents

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… It was a rewrite of a massive and old Python code base that ran Slack's internal service catalog. The only reason I was able to finish rewrites of the backend, frontend, and build an SLO sub-system is because of coding agents. Up until December I'd been doing that entire rewrite through sixteen hour days and just pure sweat equity. …