The Best Engineers Write Less Code (opens in new tab)

Coding used to be bottlenecked by typing speed; now, it’s bottlenecked by our ability to comprehend and maintain.

"We are living in an age of mass denial. Some very smart people are telling us that we no longer need to write good software because LLMs can generate code now. But terrible software is still terrible software, whether it was written by Claude Code or by a human who did not know what they were doing."

I actually think we have it pretty backwards in terms of what we need now. We as humans no longer need complex front-ends. We need data. I would rather have data access to all my spending and say things like, did I go over my restaurant budget last month? And the LLM can figure out how to do it.

It makes no sense for me to use the limited UIs that companies present anymore. Let alone signup processes - it should all be LLM friendly. Simple APIs that are called by your agent.

My company uses Teams and it's ecosystem. And for email I get a lot of crappy system updates, etc.... And around the UI there are little "AI" buttons or "Ask a question" boxes. No. This. Is. Wrong. Instead I need to be able to ask my OWN agent to check my email and archive anything dumb and inform me of anything important. In fact, don't even make it a one-off prompt- make it a permanently running long-haul agent that interacts with my "personal assistant" agent that is in charge of getting my attention if it's absolutely necessary, which knows if I'm watching a movie.