What Kelsey Hightower thinks about coding agents

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Self-taught software engineer, formerly a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud and one of the most visible voices in the Kubernetes community; retired from full-time work in 2023 and now advises and invests.

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3 Jun 2026

Our readingIf you will write a huge markdown file so an agent has context, you should have written the documentation that gives a human the same context.

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Their wordsI'm watching people write these huge markdown files to give the agent context. How about you write documentation to give me context so I can have fully working examples.

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