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AI Assisted Development
8 posts tagged AI Assisted Development.
The 'Obituary for Programming' and What Coding Agents Take Away
Jeremy Scheff's essay, amplified by Simon Willison, names a loss that benchmarks don't measure: the puzzle-solving craft that made programming a good job. For builders shipping with agents, it points at where human judgment still has to live.
- vibecoding
- coding-agents
- software-engineering
- ai-assisted-development
Coding agents make software engineering harder, not easier
Simon Willison's short note argues that coding agents raise the bar for discipline and knowledge. Here is what that means for teams shipping fintech and trading software with AI in the loop.
- coding-agents
- vibecoding
- software-engineering
- ai-assisted-development
- llms
Simon Willison's Reading List Is a Vibecoding Syllabus
Three old essays on abstractions, tech debt, and career paths just became required reading for anyone shipping AI-generated code.
- vibecoding
- software-engineering
- tech-debt
- ai-assisted-development
- leaky-abstractions
Why AI Can't Losslessly Rewrite Your Docs — And What That Means for Vibecoding
Sophie Alpert's internal writing policy, highlighted by Simon Willison, lands on a rule that applies just as hard to AI-assisted code: you must stand behind every line an LLM helps you produce.
- vibecoding
- ai-writing
- llm-workflow
- engineering-culture
- ai-assisted-development
Simon Willison's SQLite Trick: Vibecoding a 250x History Compressor
A dog-walk idea, a voice-mode brainstorm, and a 38-minute coding session produced a working pattern for storing full document revision histories in SQLite at a fraction of the raw size — a clean study in how to actually vibecode something.
- vibecoding
- sqlite
- ai-assisted-development
- dev-tooling
- llm-agents
Don't Be a Meat Proxy: Why Relaying AI Output Isn't Vibecoding
Developer Niklas Gruhn's new term for people who paste unread AI output to colleagues names a failure mode every AI-assisted team should recognize — and fix.
- vibecoding
- ai-assisted-development
- code-review
- llm-workflow
- ai-misuse
Simon Willison Vibe-Coded a Tool That Catches AI Writing's Tics
A single-file web app that flags LLM clichés like "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" — built in one sitting by prompting an LLM to write it. That build process is the real story.
- vibecoding
- ai-writing
- llm-tools
- developer-tools
- ai-assisted-development
Simon Willison Vibecoded a SQLite Query Explainer With Claude Fable 5
A browser tool that runs SQLite inside WebAssembly and translates query plans into plain English was built same-day by prompting an AI model, not hand-coding — and its creator was upfront about what he couldn't verify.
- vibecoding
- claude
- developer-tools
- sqlite
- ai-assisted-development