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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

I was surprised by how much pushback there was on this 😅 There's a ton of work being done now and in the near future defining how folks work with AI, which is a great spot to have some realistic moral conversations about the right and wrong way it's done. Missing out on that is a shame.

Not to be a huge shill (sorry) but I recently wrote about coding agent usage here based on some of the things you put in your Vibe Engineering article, if it's at all interesting @simonwillison.net 😁 there's some very cool stuff happening in this space! brittanyellich.com/agentic-soft...