Thorsten Ball: Reconsider everything you assumed about coding models 4-6 months ago
pvncher · x · 2026-10-02
Thorsten Ball (Amp) urges developers to reconsider everything they believed about frontier models 4-6 months ago: how much code to review, what mistakes models make, how to write prompts, and how much trouble they'll have understanding or changing code. The message: old workflow habits and prompt patterns are rapidly becoming obsolete as model coding capability improves.
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