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Coding agents as slot machines and the IDE as a thinking tool

April 1, 2026a16z, Greg Isenberg, Matthew Berman

Peter Yang and the a16z conversation frame coding agents as probabilistic and sometimes addictive, with the IDE shifting from a place to type code into a place to steer, evaluate, and iterate on agent output as build costs approach zero.

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