Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project.

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1. 26 Aug 2026

   David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

   Their wordsBut it actually means that if you take the median programmer and their pull requests towards an average open source project, they're already getting outclassed by agents. I would rather get an agent-written pull request to one of my projects than I'd get one written by a human, and it's not just because the quality's better. It's also because I feel a lot less bad if I just reject it.

   spoken · official transcript hear it at 0:31:58 · all korents from this recording

   ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com

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