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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
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At the centre
Designing code to be friendly to dependency injection can seem tedious, and it has been worth it every time.
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Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design.
Holds
Rust's defining experience is that once the code compiles it works — not literally true, but true often enough that people keep saying it.
Holds
The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications.
No longer holds
Working with coding agents makes software engineering harder.
Holds
Coding agents make every plugin interface you ever blew off trivially usable, which is a large productivity win.
Holds
No single way of modeling data and methods in code is universally correct; every approach is just a set of trade-offs.
Holds
What trips up newcomers to Rust is not the code but the shape of their data.
Holds
Unlike coding with an agent, the design process is still messy and fluid.
Holds
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Holds
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Holds
A group of businesses only works when every one of them feeds the others, and everything that does not fit the strategy should be sold.
Holds
A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach.
Holds
A people manager needs enough technical depth to follow discussions and judge debates without relying on trust, but not the deepest technical expertise on the team.
Holds
A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.
Holds
A feature shipped in a product's official release is fair to judge, regardless of whether the company labels it a beta.
Holds
A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass.
Holds
A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would.
Holds