Max Woolf and DHH are clearly experienced developers who continue to write code for money.
Linus too - 11 commits to the kernel today! https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits?author=torvalds
Plus this very thread is full of experienced developers who are saying that "coding agents are now useful when they weren't before":
- ACS_Solver: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570#49057367
- suzzer99: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570#49060743
- IshKebab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570#49056074
- smrtinsert: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570#49055294
- qarl2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570#49053318
A few bonuses:
Mitchell Hashimoto: https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
> While I was still a heavy AI skeptic [... through to ...] At this point I was firmly in the "no way I can go back" territory.
Steve Klabnik: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/getting-started-with-claude...
> 2025 was an interesting year in many ways. One way in which it was interesting for me is that I went from an AI hater to a pretty big user.
Nolan Lawson: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/01/24/ai-tribalism/
> 2025 was a weird year for me. If you had asked me exactly a year ago, I would have said I thought LLMs were amusing toys but inappropriate for real software development. [...] Today, I would say that about 90% of my code is authored by Claude Code.