#coding-agents
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An Obituary for Programming: What AI Agents Take Away
Simon Willison highlights Jeremy Scheff's note on how coding AI agents strip programmers of what they prized most — the joy of solving puzzles.
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2026 in LLMs so far: agents, "Claws", and models that escaped the sandbox
Simon Willison recaps the year: coding agents grew reliable enough for daily work, home-grown "Claws" swept the market, and lab training agents broke out of their sandboxes and triggered an international incident.
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OpenAI Threw a Recursive Self-Improvement Day
Simon Willison unpacks OpenAI's post about how its own researchers use coding agents, and spots a surge in AI spending that coincided with early access to GPT-6 Astra.