Ex-Engineering Director: Coding with LLMs is building the system around the system
viksit · x · 2026-08-30
A discussion on the paradigm shift in the LLM era: instead of writing the working software directly, engineers should build the automation and feedback loops around it. The key skill isn't mastering a specific agentic framework, but creating guidelines for agents to achieve goals consistently. The post suggests using functional paradigms and maintaining an append-only decision log, living design principles, and local roadmaps to compound workflow automation.
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