The bitter lesson for skills and coding agents

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.

Jim Dowling @jim dowling The Bitter Lesson for Coding Agents The Bitter Lesson for Coding Agents 7:04 PM · Jul 26, 2026 33 Views