Software engineer and AI commentator Simon Willison argues that developers can use LLM-based coding agents to reduce code complexity by compressing state, merging overlapping variables, and collapsing…
Software engineer and blogger Simon Willison argues that the traditional pull request process is becoming a bottleneck as AI coding agents accelerate development, and proposes replacing it with a cont…
Code review culture has become overly rigid, treating merged code as permanent when it should remain mutable, according to a developer arguing for more trust in experts and cheaper refactoring via cod…
A software industry commentator warns that over-reliance on AI agents for coding, reviewing, and learning is eroding developers' literacy and agency, potentially diminishing their intrinsic value and …
Gergely Orosz of the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter argues that the proliferation of communication tools and scattered information across platforms like Figma, GitHub, Slack, and Notion is fragmenting …