Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but are also quickly becoming daily drivers for the work carried out by extremely well-compensated professionals. Right now that’s still mostly software engineers, but a coding agent is a tool that can automate anything you can do by typing commands into a computer… so they are clearly applicable to a much wider set of skilled knowledge workers.
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
This is what I’m finding. I’m using them to structure skills files which then interact with python scripts to things I need done. I’m not a coder. But I’m using these agents in the same model.