{"slug": "the-influentists", "title": "The Influentists", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Last week, the developer community was busy discussing about a single tweet:\nI'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.\n— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) January 2, 2026\nThe 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).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-influentists", "canonical_source": "https://carette.xyz/posts/influentists/", "published_at": "2026-01-06 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-19 22:17:57.306514+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "developer-tools", "open-source"], "entities": ["Jaana Dogan", "Rakyll", "Google", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-influentists", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-influentists.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-influentists.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-influentists.jsonld"}}