Read Less, Steer More : ezyang's blog

kept by eddie mar 20

Prevent cognitive overload from reading AI-generated code by treating agents as fast typists rather than autonomous teammates, steering them actively.

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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Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Coding agents make writing code nearly free, forcing engineers to reorient habits from cost-saving to quality assurance like testing, documentation, and maintainability.
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