🤖 Coding Agents & AI Programming
The future of software development is here. AI agents are transforming how we write, debug, and ship code.
Key Insight
"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse."
— Andrej Karpathy, Dec 2025
What's Happening
AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot are fundamentally changing software development:
- Agentic workflows — AI doesn't just autocomplete; it plans, executes, and iterates
- Dynamic tooling — Agents can now use custom tools on the fly
- Context is king — Good AGENTS.md files make or break your agent's performance
Best Practices
- Use coding agents for all engineering work
- Give agents access to Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Sentry
- Invest in codebase-specific agent documentation
- Build robust background agent infrastructure
- Stop wasting time on custom fine-tuning — prompting is enough
Tools to Know
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | Anthropic's agentic coding assistant |
| Cursor | AI-first code editor |
| GitHub Copilot | AI pair programmer |
| Codex CLI | Terminal-based coding agent |