Off Autopilot #8
Human-written articles about agentic coding
This week’s articles:
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (~ 20 min read)
“If 2025 was the year of vibe coding, where AI got as good at generating lines of code as the median software engineer, and the range of possible futures often felt destabilizingly, impossibly wide open, I feel like 2026 is shaping up to be a return to discipline”
Charity Majors · HN discussion
When I reject AI code even if it works (~ 3 min read)
“I have to admit that with AI, completing big tasks still takes me days. More often than not, I reject all changes made by AI and start over”
Vinicius Brasil · HN discussion
Running local models is good now (~ 8 min read)
“I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now”
Vicki Boykis · Lobsters discussion
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