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Software Engineering
5 posts tagged Software Engineering.
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
Simon Willison on 'Feeling Sad About AI': The Despair Phase Passes
A viral Hacker News thread about grief over AI coding agents got a pointed reply from Simon Willison: the existential dip is real, but it's a phase, not a verdict on your career.
- vibecoding
- ai-coding-agents
- developer-experience
- simon-willison
- software-engineering
Why 'Rewrite It From Scratch' Still Fails — Even With AI Coding Agents
Simon Willison's reply to a Lobste.rs thread on technical debt lays out why full rewrites keep failing — and why AI coding agents don't change the underlying math.
- vibecoding
- technical-debt
- software-engineering
- ai-coding-agents
- legacy-systems