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Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.

How to Kill the Code Review
Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.

Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub

The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world.

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.

Helping Students Understand the Code’s Behavior and Purpose by Leveraging Concreteness Fading and Comics
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Random Tech Thoughts
This article is about standardisation, particularly how it relates to understanding code. I’ll first go into an historical example that highlights the lack of standardisation in an area where we take it for granted today. After that I’ll get into code, and how understanding code is like understanding data via visualisations. In both the historic … Continue reading Standardisation and code

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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What I Found Interesting in Claude Code's Source
A breakdown of the most interesting engineering patterns in Claude Code's leaked source code: composable system prompts, runtime instruction injection, context compression, forking, prompt caching architecture, and more.
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...

Pluralistic: It’s extremely good that Claude’s source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code – the company's flagship coding assistant product – has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:
The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
MCP 201 | Code w/ Claude
Code Worth Writing - Ray Myers | SSW 2026