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Agentic Coding Scam

Kiraa· 50.1K subscribers

9d ago · en-AU audio

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40303 The AI industry’s story keeps changing. First the value was in the model, then in prompt engineering, then in agents and subagents. Now that open-weight models have caught up, frontier labs say the real value sits in the “harness”, the code wrapped around the model that coordinates planner, executor and reviewer agents. In this video I argue that if you call it…

10.2×Above the channel median
198.8KViews
174.6Avg. views / hour · 1.4h window
19.6KMedian · 30 videos

Outlier score

198.8K views ÷ a 19.6K baseline = 10.2×. Compared with 30 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:21:32 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Generative AI & Agents

Channel-balanced percentile: 98

Comparison details

109 videos from 75 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 225 hours after publication, within ±45 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:20:04 GMT.

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