The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder
We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
Simon Willison says coding agents make software engineering harder
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Simon Willison argues that the more he works with coding agents, the more convinced he becomes that they make software engineering harder. He says unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge, even though they can do amazing things.
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Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challengesView quoted post on X
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