There were no uncomfortable truths there about code agents, save one of the 4 points which was that maybe they sometimes get prompt injected if you let them search for things online and don't pay attention to where they search and the code they write. That's not an uncomfortable truth in the normal sense of "I know you don't want to admit this but..." and more just the thing that, if you didn't know it already 8 months ago, you certainly should by now.

The other truths that were not about coding agents:

--Skill Atrophy. (Use it or lose it-- another thing we already know)

--The economics of serving code agents at scale (Ungrounded in actual numbers, only OpenAI's miscellaneous statements and annecdotes. Actual cost of running code agents: last gen's mid-tier gaming gpu's will get you reasonably close to Claude Sonnet if you put just a little time in to an agent harness, and its getting cheaper and cheaper for better and better. So, at scale, with real sysadmins doing the hard engineering to eek out every last bit of performance-- well, infra needed for serving these isn't the cost center)

--Copyright. (This passed on the same bad read of a court ruling half the press has been doing for a few years now. TLDR: The Thaler vs. Perlmutter case, which said nothing about output not being protected by copyright. It denied Thaler's attempt to register *the AI* as the owner of the copyright)