The cognitive impact of coding agents
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here's one he shared on Twitter today which ended up attracting over 1.1m views! That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes. Tags: ai-ethics , coding-agents , agentic-engineering , generative-ai , podcast-appearances , ai , llms , cognitive-debt
3rd April 2026
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here's one he shared on Twitter today which ended up attracting over 1.1m views!
That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.
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