Off Autopilot #14
Domain expertise, refactoring with LLMs, on sharing slop with humans, and stateless MCP
This week’s high-signal, human-written articles about agentic coding:
Sean Goedecke · 6 min read · Comments
“The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for”
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Giles Edwards-Alexander · 14 min read · Comments
“Refactoring reduces token consumption”
Niklas Gruhn · 2 min read · Comments
“By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words”
Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
Bruno Perez · 5 min read · Comments
“Some say that “engineers should not be concerned about choosing the best LLM for their task”. Well, we strongly disagree.”
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Simon Willison · 10 min read
“MCP is a safer way to build with agents”
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