Some of my attempts to make agents work better that just didn’t work.
Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?
Five examples of using agentic coding to improve software quality, instead of delivery throughput.
Agent Design Is Still Hard
My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island
I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that.
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.