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The Influentists

A tweet by Jaana Dogan, a respected figure in the Google and open-source communities, in which she states that her team spent a year building a distributed agent orchestrator at Google. She claims that Claude Code, an AI tool, replicated their work in just one hour after being given a description of the problem. This sparked significant discussion within the developer community about the implications of AI for software development.

read1 min views8 publishedJan 6, 2026

Last week, the developer community was busy discussing about a single tweet: I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour. β€” Jaana Dogan γƒ€γƒŠ ドガン (@rakyll) January 2, 2026 The author is Jaana Dogan (known as Rakyll), a highly respected figure in the Google ecosystem, in the open-source world, and in my heart (thank you Rakyll for your great Go blog posts).

source & further reading
carette.xyz β€” original article The five pillars of the post-AI interview The PM Trap: AI Won't Turn Engineers into Managers By Necessity: The Return of the Engineer
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