The Eternal Sloptember
This post more or less reads like how I feel. The author seems to have had more problems with the generated code than I have, possibly, but I know where they're coming from and feel the same sense of concern.
Piloting Agentic Engineering - What Software Engineers Can Learn From The Aviation Industry
I sense this is a good analogy, if you're going to find yourself in a position where using these tools is expected, or even required.
No, Copilot for GitHub wasn't advertising
Watching the "Copilot is inserting adverts into PRs!" thing do the rounds was kind of wild, because it obviously wasn't. It obviously was inserting what the team throught were useful tips, and it had been doing it for a wee while.
This comment confirms what I felt was the case there.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
In agentic circles I am seeing a degree of cope where folk are saying that good software development was all about the spec all along, and all you need is the spec.
Really though? Really?
Grief and the AI Split
I think this is an interesting take on something I touched on in a recent post on my own blog.
Linear walkthroughs - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Interesting idea: point an agent at a codebase and get it to write you a linear walkthrough of it.
The Final Bottleneck
Having really dived into my first "agent-based" project, just to see how the process really feels, I can vibe with this article.
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Paper looking at how the use of "AI" in software engineering impacts the build up of and retention of skills, at different skill levels.
Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Prompt injection attacks are going to be so much fun for quite some time to come.
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
A take on the use of "AL" in coding that I find fits my view.
AI will write your next compiler!
The blog post that explains the background of the horrific Ocaml AI-written PR. Honestly... this feels like some post hoc rationalisation cope rather than a coming clean of an honest attempt to test something out.
I'm not convinced at all.