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Willison's guide is the closest thing to a consensus playbook for working with coding agents. Two chapters published: "Writing code is cheap now" (the economics shift) and "Red/green TDD" (the methodology). Combined with the Ladybird Rust port case study (25K lines of Rust in 2 weeks via Claude Code + Codex using test suite + human-directed architecture + hundreds of small prompts), we now have both theory and proof. Action: Read Willison's guide. Adopt TDD for all agent-assisted development. Humans define WHAT, agents implement HOW.
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ladybird.org — 25,000 lines of Rust written in approximately 2 weeks using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. The methodology is the story: comprehensive test suite written first (by humans), human-directed architecture decisions, bounded scope per agent session (small focused prom...
Spotify's Portal team published Xirp on August 10: a vendor-neutral agentic development environment that manages concurrent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex, each session isolated in its own git worktree so dozens of agents can work the same codebase without...
Willison's framing has settled into a real split: vibe coding (intent-first, accept-without-reading, optimized for speed with Lovable/Bolt/v0) versus agentic engineering (correctness-first, Claude Code/Aider/Cline under structured oversight). The tell is process. Spec-driven S...
Warp released its client codebase under AGPL-3.0, surged to 56,000 GitHub stars and #2 on GitHub Trending. But the real story isn't the open-sourcing. It's the repositioning. Warp isn't calling itself a terminal anymore. It's an "agentic development environment." The product n...
5.8k stars, Rust, macOS, ~40 MB versus ~67 MB upstream, keeping full Lua customization. Command-failure recovery with suggested fixes applied via Cmd + Shift + E, natural-language-to-command via # <description>, preconfigured integration for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and...
Mistral's Vibe CLI is a new open-source terminal coding agent with Zed IDE integration, project-aware context, and Agent Communication Protocol support. Built on Devstral 2 (123B, 256K context). Currently free via Mistral API. Combined with Devstral Small 2 (24B), this gives b...
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