The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis Skills for the Code AGI Era
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Jan 25, 2026 A look at how coding agents change software creation and the new roles that matter. Discussion of skills like systems thinking, async orchestration, task scoping, and verification practices. Exploration of choosing the right problems, domain expertise, and redesigning workflows for long-horizon, agent-driven work.
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Commodification Of Building
- Claude Code with newer models is shifting software from craftsmanship to industrialized building.
- This makes building accessible to people who haven't coded before and favors small flexible teams.
From Wielding Tools To Pointing An Army
- Nathan Lambert describes shifting his own work toward directing agents instead of micromanaging them.
- He finds more value in pointing an army of agents than grinding on problems himself.
Give Agents Ambitious Work
- Give agents hard, meaningful tasks to surface where they get stuck and what they can accomplish.
- Play with agents by assigning long-horizon work instead of only small cleanup jobs.