{"slug": "learn-by-building-with-coding-agents", "title": "Learn by Building with Coding Agents", "summary": "A developer shares a workflow for learning to code by building projects with AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex, arguing that software engineering remains a valuable skill even as AI advances toward one-shotting entire apps.", "body_md": "Member-only story\n\n# Learn by Building with Coding Agents\n\n## The best way to learn coding in 2026, using AI harnesses (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, etc.)\n\nNon-members link\n\nFirst of all, let’s be honest.\n\nAI is here to stay.\n\nAnd more prominently in coding.\n\nModern SOTA (State-of-the-art) AI models have already achieved respectable performance level in coding and software engineering tasks.\n\nAnd it won’t be surprising at all that in the next few years, we would have models that are capable of one-shotting a whole app with perfect code quality and zero security issues.\n\nThis exact idea is at the root of the discussion about: **Should you still learn Software Engineering?**\n\nEven though this post isn’t about answering that question, I am of the opinion that it is still and will always be a valuable skill to acquire, even when we reach the AGI era. But, let’s save that discussion for another day.\n\nToday, I wanted to share with you a workflow I landed on, after I’ve been using coding agents for quite a while now, that will help you learn by building.\n\nThis workflow will give you a custom and fun learning experience that can be really hard to find anywhere…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents-60ca01a65cf6?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-07-07 18:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 18:06:11.194703+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "OpenCode", "Codex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/learn-by-building-with-coding-agents.jsonld"}}