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How I Program with Agents
2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs, covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search.
Agents can try the end product themselves: run the code, take a screenshot of a page from the browser, feed it back into the model and keep tweaking the CSS based on the end-to-end rendering. In heavily used products with a growing user base adding new ways of using programs, engineers do spend most of their time navigating the unwritten misunderstood interdependencies of existing code. Instead, I opened a second copy of Sketch and pasted in a screenshot of the form and wrote “this is ugly, please make it less ugly.” I went back to thinking about auth, and when I remembered I had typed that a half hour later I looked at the results and decided yes, it is an improvement.
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