Coding agents grew up while you weren't watching
MCP installs crossed 97M in March. Agents now read issues, navigate codebases, and open PRs unsupervised — and the market is $12.8B.
Simplicity over complexity, quantity over quality.
Security Engineer · Notes from building at speed
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Notes from a security engineer building at speed — on shipping, design, and the systems that hold the web together.
MCP installs crossed 97M in March. Agents now read issues, navigate codebases, and open PRs unsupervised — and the market is $12.8B.
The frontier is no longer a single line. Five or six independent labs can now ship a near-state-of-the-art coding model, and the marginal cost of doing so is dropping faster than the gains.
I used to read every release post. As of this month, I have given up. The frontier no longer rewards the people who read every release — it rewards the ones with a tight eval loop and the patience to swap.