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I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

Damien

@damienstanton.com

It does, but I think it just indicates a bifurcation of the kinds of software LLM systems build vs humans; they write extremely convoluted, hyperdocumented, fairly badly designed code, but it often works. Whether that’s good or bad depends on the project, taste, workload of the future maintainers.

11/10/25, 6:17 pm0 reposts0 likes

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

11 Oct 2025

It doesn't have to be like that, though: if you want to get well designed code out of an LLM you can do that by putting in extra work yourself, see simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v... and mitchellh.com/writing/non-...