Terence Tao shares his experience using AI agents to write code

The mathematician Terence Tao, known for his work in analysis and number theory as well as for his active use of technology in his research, has published a post on his personal blog titled “Old and new apps, via modern coding agents.”

In the piece, he shares his experience using modern AI agents to write code — both when building new applications and when working with existing projects.

The post quickly gained traction on the aggregator Hacker News, where at the time of writing it had collected 169 votes and 36 comments — a sign of considerable community interest in the topic of using AI tools in everyday development, including among specialists whose primary work is not directly tied to programming.

Terence Tao has spoken publicly before about applying AI tools in his work, which makes his observations on the capabilities and limitations of coding agents especially interesting both for professional developers and for researchers from other fields who see such tools as a way to expand their own technical capabilities.

The details of exactly which tasks were tackled with the agents and what conclusions the author reached are laid out in the original post on his blog.

Source: Hacker News