







Agentic coding is now free for everyone.

Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.


Kilo - Pricing
Pricing for Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI

Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
Agents for the Agent
Amp now has new subagents and they're more powerful than ever. Is everything changing again?

Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals
Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...

Open Coding Agents: Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo | Ai2
SERA is the first in our family of Open Coding Agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance at low cost.

The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts

The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts

Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months

A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?
Five examples of using agentic coding to improve software quality, instead of delivery throughput.

OpenCode Zen | A curated set of reliable optimized models for coding agents
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.
