Coding agents are deep skill, says OpenCode creator
Dax Raad argues that AI coding agents require significant expertise to master, with a high skill ceiling that separates elite engineers from those producing "AI spaghetti."
The "vibe coding" era is maturing as developers realize that agentic orchestration is a technical discipline in its own right.
- –Effective agent use shifts the bottleneck from syntax mastery to architectural strategy and validation rigor.
- –The "SKILL.md" pattern and context engineering are becoming the new primitives for high-performance engineering teams.
- –Beginners often produce poor results because they lack the "deep taste" required to design the primitives the agent needs to succeed.
- –Mastering these tools isn't just about prompting; it's about building "AI-navigable" codebases and robust TDD-driven workflows.
- –OpenCode serves as the MIT-licensed testing ground for these "agentic engineering" best practices.
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