Early Lessons on AI Agent Productivity

If learning agentic coding is a Hero’s Journey, I feel like I’m in the “Initiation” phase - a road of trials and ordeals, but the reward (big leaps in productivity) is in sight. In this post I’m talking about how I got myself to being a “1x developer” leaning hard on coding agents, and the path I see to “5x developer” or so with currently available tools.