> For me, the writing speed has never been the issue. The issue has been my thinking speed. I do not see how an AI coding assistant helps me think better

Similar to moving from individual work to coordinating a large codebase: coding agents, human or otherwise, let you think at a higher abstraction level and tackle larger problems by taking care of the small details.

If I’m coordinating a large codebase, I expect the people I’m coordinating to be capable of learning and improving over time. Coding agents cannot (currently) do this.

I wonder if a very lightweight RL loop built around the user could work well enough to help the situation. As I understand it, current LLMs generally do not learn at a rate such that one single bad RL example and one (prompted?) better example could result in improvement at anywhere near human speed.