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Aug 13, 2026 1 hr 39 min

Dex Horthy - What Actually Gets You 2-3x With AI Coding

from The Weekly Dev's Brew Hosted by Jan-Niklas Wortmann, Dex Horthy

You can't get 10x with AI coding. Not today. Dex Horthy (Human Layer) makes the case for 2-3x if you refuse to ship slop, and why a perfect spec still produces garbage if you give the model permission to skip quality. That permission is how you burn a codebase into ash. We get into context engineering, where AI coding actually fails, why PR review is the bottleneck, how to use specs without worshipping them, cheap models vs Opus, compaction and sub-agents, and what to tell a 20-year engineer who is not living on Twitter. Dex is the founder of Human Layer. https://humanlayer.dev

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