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HN Consensus Shifts: Verification Capacity — Not Code-Gen Speed — Is the 2026 Coding-Agent Bottleneck
Recent Hacker News discussion crystallized a maturation in the AI-coding debate: the binding constraint is no longer generation speed but verification capacity, and developers getting real value orchestrate multiple bounded workflows rather than handing agents one big autonomous task. Threads now treat pricing, session limits, context retention over long sessions, and harness design as 'the product itself,' not side issues. For builders, this validates investing in eval/verification harnesses and context engineering over chasing raw autonomy.
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