Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

kept by eddie feb 24

Coding agents make writing code nearly free, forcing engineers to reorient habits from cost-saving to quality assurance like testing, documentation, and maintainability.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.
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Read Less, Steer More : ezyang's blog
Prevent cognitive overload from reading AI-generated code by treating agents as fast typists rather than autonomous teammates, steering them actively.
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Fragments: April 29
The post collects expert perspectives on AI-assisted development, emphasizing verification over generation, harness engineering, function structure, and the cultural divide between software thinking and human experience.
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AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Coding agents can improve code quality by handling refactoring, enabling exploratory prototyping, and compounding small quality improvements over time.
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