Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different cases2, I have found that in practice literate programming turns into a chore of maintaining two parallel narratives: the code itself, and the prose. This has obviously limited its adoption.
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code
On Programming with Agents
From the Zed Blog: Agents handle typing so we can focus on thinking.
How to harness AI
"Coding agents" are complicated but intelligible
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
AI Code
As AI Coding Agents write more code, it's more important than ever that we're intentional about the code it writes.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.
AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…
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...
Joshua Gu on Twitter / X
Recent agentic systems (Claude Code, Codex, RLM, etc.) push context out of the prompt and into the environment (e.g., as files). This helps them maintain long-term knowledge about their goals and functionality.🚨 While this is a good idea, we show a surprising result: systems… pic.twitter.com/XHFVaDcr4l— Joshua Gu (@astrogu_) May 20, 2026
Three camps alike in dignity
🪧 A full catalogue of the field can now be found at agentlanguages.dev. In the last six months, programming languages designed for models rather than humans have started to appear. Work on most began entirely independently, initiated by people who had never heard of each other, but all roughly during the same window of time. […]
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
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
Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns
I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …
