







Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.— Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) June 7, 2026
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.

Mckay Wrigley on Twitter / X
factorio is unironically the perfect tutorial for agentic coding systems btw. https://t.co/CCkveZ4Yzr— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) December 27, 2025
Loop Engineering | AddyOsmani.com
You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s...

Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.

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...

In defense of not reading the code | Ben Shoemaker
Last week, I wrote an article whose purpose was to discuss where I saw AI-assisted coding going. That's not what generated 200 comments worth of passionate...

Matt Pocock on Twitter / X
There's an AI coding approach that lets you run seriously long-running AI agents (hours, days) that ship code while you sleep. I've tried it, and I'm not going back.It's the Ralph Wiggum approach. Here it is in a nutshell:Run a coding agent with a clean slate, again and again…— Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) January 4, 2026
Unrolling the Codex agent loop
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.

No Coding Before 10am | Michael Bloch
Engineering is no longer about writing code. Here is one startup's playbook for building in the AI agent era.


Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Part 3) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .

Scaling long-running autonomous coding · Cursor
We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.

Claude Code by Anthropic | AI Coding Agent, Terminal, IDE
Anthropic's agentic coding tool for developers. Claude Code understands your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and helps you ship faster.

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 Unpacked
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.

AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog
How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.
