August 22, 2026
The key skill for using coding agents effectively is being able to confidently instruct them to make changes, and then confidently verify that those changes were made correctly.
Sometimes this means reviewing every line of code they write, but there are other ways to achieve the same goal. Visually inspecting code line by line is never the most effective way to verify software changes.
This short article was published by Simon Willison on August 22, 2026.