This is why I don’t get the perverse pleasure people get when they say they don’t look at code anymore

It’s not like we’ve created a new abstraction layer with coding agents. It’s a leaky factory where every part up and down can break and/or be improved.

The best factories thrive in a learning culture. Where humans grow their knowledge to improve the operation of the factory. From nuts and bolts up to larger systems.

How do you do that without reading code? Without writing code?

I started even replacing my use of specs with exploratory coding to grow my own knowledge and context

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/04/write-code-not-spec...