Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

kept by eddie feb 24

Simon Willison's guide outlines patterns and principles for effectively using coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to improve code quality and developer productivity.

How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering - by Gregor Ojstersek
Engineers and leaders from 15 companies share structured workflows for AI-assisted coding, emphasizing design-first approaches, rigorous review, and context discipline over ad-hoc prompting.
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OpenAI Codex Review 2026 — Updated from Daily Use
After a year of daily use, OpenAI Codex has become a reliably indispensable tool for production development, handling 85-90% of well-scoped maintenance tasks.
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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.
also on Simon Willison, Claude Code, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools