September 25, 2026
AI agents demand discipline: @simon's Sep 25 view
On Sep 25, 2026, @simon called AI agents a source of powerful results that demands exceptional discipline and expertise from developers.
Simon Willison
@simonw
The more I work with coding agents, the more convinced I become: they make software development even harder. You can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their potential requires exceptional discipline and expertise.
Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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On Sep 25, 2026, @simon called AI agents a source of powerful results that demands exceptional discipline and expertise from developers.
@GergelyOrosz believes that people outside software development will not be deploying code to production for a long time, perhaps forever.
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