Fragments: April 29

kept by eddie apr 30

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.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require facial age estimation or ID upload to access adult content starting next month, using account data for most users instead of verification.
also on The Verge, #user-experience
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Software engineers must prove code works through manual and automated testing, shifting accountability away from AI agents to the human submitting the PR.
also on codex-cli, Simon Willison, Claude Code, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
What you're actually writing when you write a SKILL.md
Skills are loader specifications with three execution stages, not static prompts, and understanding this runtime architecture is the key to writing efficient, portable agent skills.
also on codex-cli, Claude Code, #user-experience, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools
the browser is the sandbox
The browser's 30-year-old sandbox model can be adapted to safely run AI agents locally, though gaps remain in network isolation and malicious file creation.
also on Simon Willison, Claude Code, #software-engineering
Software as clay on the wheel
Autonomous AI coding agents become reliable when tasks have clear, testable success criteria, shifting human oversight from implementation to specification and validation.
also on Simon Willison, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools