On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts
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.
Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code
We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.
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.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Agent skill · Libraries.dev
Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.
Note on 24th September 2026
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking …
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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The Picture They Paint of You
Musings on the way we frame Coding Assistants, AI SREs, and what this communicates in terms of how these roles are perceived.
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
The biggest challenge in adopting agentic engineering practices is getting comfortable with the consequences of the fact that writing code is cheap now.
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code
Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Cursor: AI coding agent
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best AI coding agent.
Managing Agent Skills with Your Package Manager | pavel.pink
AI coding agents use skills — markdown files that teach them domain-specific tasks. We publish ours as conda packages and manage them with pixi, getting versioning, lockfiles, and supply chain security for free.
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
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 …
