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Building maintainable software with agents.

I've spent two decades in software engineering. Working with coding agents has made me revisit much of what I thought I knew about the job.

Things were great in coding, but starting from the December 2025 we all felt that something new started happening with codex, /goal loops and self-guided research. It is strange time to be alive and to navigate. This series is my attempt to reflect on what is going on and try to navigate the world where nobody has a real clue where things are headed.

Start here

For my current thinking, start with We never wanted human code. To follow how the ideas developed, read the series in order (see ToC on the right).

There is also another series of posts on a similar topic, but more on the org and process level than coding: New experiment in 2026

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