Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
Simon Willison on coding agents, technology choice, and the Skills ecosystem.
Links
- Post: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/not-so-boring/
- Date: March 9, 2026
Key Excerpt
The Skills mechanism that is being rapidly embraced by most coding agent tools is super-relevant here. We are already seeing projects release official skills to help agents use them—here are examples from Remotion, Supabase, Vercel, and Prisma.
The post argues that contrary to expectations, coding agents don't push developers toward "boring technology." Modern agents work well with new/niche tools by consuming documentation and learning from codebase patterns, rather than favoring only mainstream tools in their training data.