For two years I was anxious about this and I got it wrong. I looked at the first coding agents and I was frustrated. What is this. This is stupid. I decided the whole thing was a joke.
Then in December 2025, I was following some small accounts on a social platform, people with almost no followers, and all of a sudden everybody was talking about one particular coding agent.
I run a company that teaches people to write code. My core competency was coding. So I wanted to believe coding was important. I did not want to believe a machine could do a better job for free, or very close to free. Believing that would be against my interest. And if it was true anyway, it could kill me, it could kill the business, it could kill my value proposition.
So I made a decision. Instead of holding on to my confirmation bias, instead of refusing to accept what might be reality, instead of resisting the technology because it threatened me, I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted to find out for myself whether coding was really gone. I wanted to find out for myself instead of reading other people's conspiracy theories about it, because I look for the truth, and I want to do the right thing, and sometimes the right thing is not the thing I want to believe.
So I started using it. Fifteen hours, sixteen hours, day and night, sessions running while I slept. My wife started telling people the coding agent was my new wife. I built five or six applications that people pay for. Then I rebuilt the company on it.
Here is what that saved. The customer relationship software, Salesforce, cost me $60,000 a year. I switched it off. Then the AWS hosting cost me $180,000 a year. I switched that off too. Add the two people who ran Salesforce and the software development team I no longer had to keep, and we saved around $700,000 every year. Three quarters of a million dollars, off the bill, and it did not come back.
In December I still thought they were wrong. By January I was using it sixteen hours a day. Nothing changed my mind in between. So what moved first?
The belief sat exactly where it was, and using the thing did not move it either. What moved was a number. I asked myself whether I could be radically honest with myself instead of holding on to my small-box belief. A small box, and I had built it. And if there is a 1% chance that they are right, I am not missing this train. It never asks you to be persuaded. You only have to agree the odds are not zero, and then go and use the thing until your opinion is made of something other than your own interest. You should be running this on me right now. I sell the training.