Achieving high-volume, high-quality output from coding agents requires significant skill, knowledge, and experience — the qualities that define senior engineers.

Agents can produce far more code, but only when wielded by engineers with the judgment to maintain quality — making senior-level skill the critical enabler of agent-driven productivity gains. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-19 · original ↗

You can get to that point with agents, but it takes a huge amount of skill and knowledge and experience. That's what senior engineers are made of.

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