I'm sold. Agentic coding is the future of web application development. There is no going back. Close the editor. Open Claude.
Your job is now to manage, review, corral and improve a relentless junior dev who is working on 6+ PRs in parallel.
"You can’t make people do good work. You can’t stop them from doing bad work. All you can do is share context and enforce consequences.
That’s it."
from @royrapoport's article "Letting Go"
https://medium.com/@royrapoport/letting-go-37ad35a341c4
My 8000-word note on agents: huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/...
1. An AI-powered agent's capability is determined by its tools and its planning ability
2. How to select the best tools for your agent
3. How to augment a model’s planning capability
4. Agent’s failure modes
Feedback is much appreciated!
A very good article, to be read before embarking on things that are unnecessarily over-complicated under the pretext of "best practices", a mistake that is unfortunately all too common in our profession.
minds.md/zakirullin/c...
New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! minimaxir.com/2025/01/writ...
Yeah the total of their top languages is about 40% so there's bound to be a fair chunk of traffic uncategorised.
They say its automated traffic, I.e not user driven, which is a slightly different definition to that I think. I'm not sure it matters too much though as its likely you can extrapolate it to all backend dev.
