The average punter does not want to build software.
They don't want to prompt software.
They don’t even want to describe software.
www.joanwestenberg.com/ai-twitters...
Coding is dead. (Long live the software engineer)
youtu.be/0jaocLi1rF0?... 📺
#aicoding #agenticengineering #claudecode #githubcopilot #vibecoding
If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore.
If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.
I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do
So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
This seems like a super relevant tool to counter the whole "cognitive debt" issue wrt AI coding tools. How feasible do you think it would be to generate these kinds of diagrams highlighting a batch of AI driven changes, e.g. a PR's worth, focusing more on the delta rather than the entire codebase?
This is the way!
youtu.be/cucwqk-2YGo
You should be looking for velocity, not just speed. Speed lacks direction.
More autonomy requires more constraints, not just bigger specs.
#aicoding
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
#aicoding #claudecode #ralphwiggum #beads #gastown #openclaw
Buckle up. This year the way we write software will change.
In this video, I map out where software engineering is heading, introduce a practical maturity ladder and zoom in on essential skills if you want to stay effective in 2026 and beyond.
📺 youtu.be/6W_-YWHKwZ4
I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code
maggieappleton.com/gastown
You can give it examples of tests in "your style" to mitigate 3.
Hard agree on 4 though, you just saved yourself some monkey work
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Published: What is Continuous Delivery?
It takes nine principles, one heuristic, three foundations, one pattern and three practices to practice truly Continuous Delivery.
thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
In this video we'll quickly go over the awesome "AI augmented coding patterns" by @lexler.bsky.social and others.
Are you a cyborg or a centaur? Watch the video and find out!
youtu.be/54I-mOMwdtM
#aiaugmentedcoding #claudecode #githubcopilot #cursorcode
Link to blog post: jvaneyck.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/f...
Showcase video: youtu.be/_AxsTQDxSbc?...
#fsharp #FsAdvent
Visualization of Day 3 (Lobby), written in Elm #AdventOfCode einarwh.no/aoc/2025/day...
Advent of code in F# - day 4
After modular arithmetic and dynamic programming, today felt like a breath of fresh air 😅
youtu.be/RF-YIFsPe7A
#adventofcode #fsharp
If this happens during an interactive session I immediately kill the session and start a new one. Context window compaction always leads to noticeable degraded quality in my experience
This resource contains the best patterns & heuristics to make it work:
lexler.github.io/augmented-co...
Advent of code in F# - day 02
youtu.be/AIuhrDGmuVA
github.com/jovaneyck/ad...
#adventofcode #fsharp
My bad, completely glossed over 😅
The "4 pillars of a good unit test" more specifically
Gteat list!
I also appreciate the framing here: www.manning.com/books/unit-t...
Sign me up!
The old developer. *sobs in recognition*
That’s a wrap for day one of #SocratesBE
Here’s a FOMO inducing photo of today’s marketplace.
What you don’t see is Vincent’s legendary lightning talk on Limburgse Vlaai. That happened Thursday evening already.
Great idea!
Not serena-related, but I've been working on opening up my fsi.exe sessions over mcp and it has been very fun programming this way: github.com/jovaneyck/fs...
F# folk - I've started a PR to add F# support to the Serena MCP server, that effectively allows the use of the F# language server from coding agents.
github.com/oraios/seren...
Please be welcome to contribute to get this over the line.
cc @chethusk.bsky.social
Thanks
Don
I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/p...
