Terence Tao Publishes a Practitioner Walkthrough of Building 'Old and New Apps' with Modern Coding Agents

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Fields Medalist Terence Tao posted a July 11 essay documenting how he rebuilds and creates small apps using modern AI coding agents; it hit #1 on Hacker News with 441 points and 130 comments. It is a rare first-person account from a top mathematician treating coding agents as everyday tooling rather than novelty. A strong signal that agent-assisted coding has crossed into serious technical practitioners' daily workflows.