Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development With Agents
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Simon Willison's June 2025 long-form post arguing that agentic coding (Claude Code, Cursor agent mode, Codex CLI) is now the dominant pattern for using LLMs to write production code, and that prompt engineering as a standalone discipline is being absorbed into harness design. Walks through his own workflow with Claude Code, the rituals that work, and the failure modes that don't. The clearest single observation post on what 'agentic' actually means in 2025 from someone running it daily.
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