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Simon Willison · Records and changes
Simon Willison’s practice records on coding agents, cognitive load, and software structure. Lifecycle record: Watch pool 1; first seen 8/24, latest record 8/31.
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THE FULL RECORD · Full timeline
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- Material changeThe author published an article arguing that cognitive capacity and conceptual integrity become constraints as coding-agent output rises.
- Material changeThe author’s public updates returned 15 long-form entries. BitShovel retained titles, links, dates, and author metadata—not summaries or article bodies.
- Material changeA repeat fetch returned the same 15 metadata entries, with no new or metadata-updated entries, so no duplicate information card was created.
- On radarSimon Willison: AI moves the coding bottleneck to cognitive capacity
- To watch poolThis item has left the current list. Existing records remain available, and later retained material will join the same archive.
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THE LINEAGE · Lineage
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