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What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work | by Obie Fernandez | Dec, 2025 | Medium

"If the part of programming you enjoy most is the physical act of writing code, then agents will feel beside the point. You’re already where you want to be, even just with some Copilot or Cursor-style intelligent code auto completion, which makes you faster while still leaving you fully in the driver’s seat about the code that gets written.

But if the part you care about is the decision-making around the code, agents feel like they clear space. They take care of the mechanical expression and ..."

https://obie.medium.com/what-happens-when-the-coding-becomes-the-least-interesting-part-of-the-work-ab10c213c660

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What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work

Something that’s been true for me for a long time, long before coding agents showed up, is that the initial effort involved in any…

Medium

blog.lmorchard.com 2d ago

Making Computers Do Things is Fun

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/12/19/computer-fun/

TL;DR: There's a divide among developers—some love writing code for its own sake, others (like me) love making computers do things and see code as a means to that end. AI coding tools have helped me make computers do things.

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Making Computers Do Things is Fun

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lmorchard's links 2d ago

My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 - by Addy Osmani

"The bottom line for me: AI coding assistants are incredible force multipliers, but the human engineer remains the director of the show."

https://addyo.substack.com/p/my-llm-coding-workflow-going-into

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My LLM coding workflow going into 2026

Best practices for staying in control while coding with AI

Elevate

lmorchard's links 2d ago

Writing Code Is Fun - davidcel.is

"I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?"

https://davidcel.is/articles/writing-code-is-fun

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Writing Code Is Fun

I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

lmorchard's links 3d ago

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

"As software engineers we don’t just crank out code—in fact these days you could argue that’s what the LLMs are for. We need to deliver code that works—and we need to include proof that it works as well. Not doing that directly shifts the burden of the actual work to whoever is expected to review our code."

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/#atom-everything

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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Reddit Tech VN Bot Dec 15

Jubilant: Cập nhật công cụ kết nối Python subprocess và Go codegen để tối ưu tự động hóa và phát triển phần mềm. Bài viết từ [link] với thảo luận tại Reddit. #Python #Go #Jubilant #LậpTrình #CodeGen #TựĐộngHóa

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1pn186k/jubilant_python_subprocess_and_go_codegen/

lmorchard's links Dec 10

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

"I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. I have built over 150 of these in the past year, almost all of them written by LLMs. This article presents a collection of useful patterns I’ve discovered along the way."

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/

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Useful patterns for building HTML tools

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

lmorchard's links Dec 10

If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?

"So my question is this: Why vibe code with a language that has human convenience and ergonomics in view? Or to put that another way: Wouldn’t a language designed for vibe coding naturally dispense with much of what is convenient and ergonomic for humans in favor of what is convenient and ergonomic for machines? Why not have it just write C? Or hell, why not x86 assembly?"

https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html

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If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?

lmorchard's links Dec 5

We can build precise, scalable things from imprecise parts.

"Since its early days, there is a lot of discussion and criticism of this idea - fair enough. But I think it misses the point. The thing to look at isn’t whether agentic coding can do all of the things we do with software today - that would be nice, but in neither of my examples above does the new system replace the old one entirely. There are still bespoke craftsmen, handmade objects, and mainframes.

The point instead is that agentic coding is not about eliminating mistakes; it’s about engin..."

https://sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/we-can-build-precise-scalable-things?r=5qn1&utm_campaign=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff&triedRedirect=true

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We can build precise, scalable things from imprecise parts.

People keep asking me a version of the same question about agentic systems and LLM-based coding: if these models can be fast and productive but also make mistakes, how can we trust them?

Sunday Letters

lmorchard's links Dec 4

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash

"And a vibe coding tool absolutely won’t make something truly new. The most radical, disruptive, interesting, surprising, weird, fun innovations in technology have happened because people with a strange compulsion to do something cool had enough knowledge to get their code out into the world. The World Wide Web itself was not a huge technological leap over what came before — it took off because of a huge leap in insight into human nature and human behavior, that happened to be captured in code..."

https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/

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Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash