Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding (techcrunch.com)

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko praised the rise of "agentic coding" tools — autonomous, multi-step code-generation systems — saying they've become a "force multiplier" for experienced engineers. He described using Anthropic’s Claude to run through development tasks and acting mainly as an overseer, able to tell when the model is "going off the rails." For the AI/ML community this underscores a practical shift: large models are moving from assistants to semi-autonomous agents, amplifying expert productivity but increasing the importance of robust monitoring, interpretability, testing, and human-in-the-loop governance to catch failure modes. Yakovenko framed these technical comments against Solana’s business momentum and the political risks of open protocols. Solana reported $2.85 billion in annual revenue and saw a Bitwise-backed Solana ETF pull nearly $70 million on its first day, signaling growing institutional adoption as traditional finance warms to crypto settlement models. At the same time, he acknowledged limits of control over tokens issued on an open chain — citing Trumpcoin, which reportedly funneled ~$350 million to the president and has prompted bribery concerns — highlighting how decentralized platforms complicate accountability even as they scale.