Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals

The Value of Understanding Code In an agentic engineering world, what is the value of the code?

One observation from using agentic engineering with Brighter is that the old adage of “work expands to the resources available” is definitely true.

Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer defines the software engineer's role in interacting with the agent to produce computer programs.

tl;dr Brooks' hypothesis in “The Mythical Man Month” is that the nature of software development means that no further “order of magnitude” improvements to productivity remain to be found has proven remarkably solid despite forty years of software history.