Pattern: SWE Past the Elbow — Practitioners Report Shift from Code Writing to Agent Loop Orchestration
r/singularity·medium signal
A r/singularity post (97 upvotes, 224 comments) describes the inflection point in real-time: 'Two years ago I was writing every line. A year ago I was prompting and reviewing. Six months ago I was running multi-turn loops manually. Last week I ran a multi-agent system that shipped a feature while I slept.' The 224-comment thread is split between confirmation (senior devs reporting similar trajectories) and skepticism (pointing out survivorship bias). This maps directly to Karpathy's PEV loop framework — the practitioners who've crossed this threshold describe a qualitatively different workflow.