Note on 24th September 2026
Simon Willison's Weblog (LLM / AI engineering) · Sep 24, 2026
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Claim: Coding agents make software engineering harder and require extraordinary discipline and knowledge to unlock their potential.
Evidence: Personal observation from time spent working with coding agents; no quantified data, reproducible tests, or comparative metrics provided.
Rationale
Bare assertion from experience, no reproducible data or method. Relevant to Timothy's CC+Codex workflow (applicability=2) but too vague to act on. Hype markers present (superlative "extraordinary", unquantified "full potential"). No commoditization angle. Archive as context for discipline discussion, not actionable triage item.