Off Autopilot #2: human-written articles about agentic coding

Off Autopilot is the newsletter that finds rare, human-written, high-signal articles about agentic coding in an ocean of slop and hype.

This week's articles:

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

“Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further”

10 Lessons for Agentic Coding

“Agents amplify experience. Talented developers underestimate how much intuition they bring to their prompts: the right terms, the right framing, and the right level of specificity.”

AI didn’t delete your database, you did

“I’m not one to blindly defend AI, I always err on the side of caution. But I also know you can’t blame a tool for your own mistakes.”

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

“The goal is to build high quality production systems: if you’re building lower quality stuff faster, I think that’s bad. I want to build higher quality stuff faster”

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