Latest / October 19, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published October 19, 2026, by Simon Willison and James Stanier and Troy Hunt.
My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic…
Recently at Nordhealth we embarked on a re-skin of our entire application: a visual uplift of the whole product to bring it into 2026. These kinds of changes have a big blast radius and are inherently risky, but we championed the individuals to be bold, working across any…
I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program.