Whether you agree with, hate, or are turbulently navigating the transition of many teams to agent-mediated coding (I am considering the post from @anildash where he talks about #codeless, IE #LiterateProgramming or #LiterateDevelopment), Robert C Martin's book, Clean Code should be the bible in these times.
Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts! https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/22/codeless/
@anildash I do have a better term than #codeless!
I mean Donald Knuth does: #LiterateProgramming.
AI is new, but everything about what the developer does is, well, let's call it #LiterateDevelopment, just a slight shift into this millennium, reflecting that it really becomes enough to develop a system, still obviously referencing Knuth.
I think the word "literate" emphasizes the care and responsibility a dev should take not to produce slop.