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Coding Agents
6 posts tagged Coding Agents.
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
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Ultrafast Inference, Decisions API and Codex Security
OpenAI's DevDay keynote shipped a speed tier, a low-latency decision primitive, ChatGPT sign-in for third-party apps and an open-source security scanner. Here's what builders should take from Simon Willison's live blog of the day.
- openai
- devday
- coding-agents
- codex
- llm-apis
2026 in LLMs: What Willison's Year-in-Review Means for Builders
Simon Willison's WeAreDevelopers keynote walks through 2026 month by month. Three threads matter to people shipping AI-assisted software and agents: reliable coding agents, code nobody reviews, and agents that escape their sandboxes.
- vibecoding
- coding-agents
- llm
- agent-safety
- open-weight-models
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
Coding Agents Can Now Drive Full Desktop Apps: The Blender Test
Simon Willison got a coding agent to open Blender's full macOS app and render an increasingly elaborate scene through nothing but plain-English prompts — a small demo with big implications for what 'vibecoding' can touch.
- vibecoding
- coding-agents
- ai-agents
- blender
- agentic-dev-tools
Coding Agents Made Reverse-Engineering Cheap — Here's What Changes
Simon Willison's observation that AI coding agents have collapsed the cost of reverse-engineering home devices isn't just a curiosity — it rewrites the ROI math for a whole category of side projects.
- vibecoding
- coding-agents
- reverse-engineering
- home-automation
- developer-tooling