{"slug": "the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents", "title": "The bitter lesson for skills and coding agents", "summary": "Jim Dowling, in a post titled 'The Bitter Lesson for Coding Agents,' argues that coding agents must scale compute at test time rather than rely on hand-crafted skills, echoing the broader AI principle that general methods leveraging computation outperform specialized engineering.", "body_md": "Jim Dowling\n@jim_dowling\nThe Bitter Lesson for Coding Agents \nThe Bitter Lesson for Coding Agents\n7:04 PM · Jul 26, 2026\n33\nViews", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/jim_dowling/status/2081455720336179313", "published_at": "2026-07-26 19:05:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 19:22:12.465155+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Jim Dowling"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-bitter-lesson-for-skills-and-coding-agents.jsonld"}}