Simon Willison (via Matt Webb): 'Agents Grind Problems Into Dust' — Great Libraries Are Agentic Security
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Willison's March 28 post shares Matt Webb's thesis that agentic coding's real risk isn't bad code — agents will brute-force any problem with infinite token spend, producing unmaintainable solutions. The fix: great libraries that make the correct approach the easy path, so agents naturally produce maintainable, composable output. Tagged supply-chain and security, this reframes library design as a security primitive for the agentic era — if the library API guides agents toward correct patterns, the output is safe by construction.