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Engineers describe the job as prompting and sanity-checking

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Engineers at large tech firms described their work as prompting coding agents and sanity-checking the output.

Reporting date: 2025-12-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 16, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Engineers describe the job as prompting and sanity-checking
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Reporting date: 2025-12-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-16-engineering-becomes-prompting
Claim: Engineers at large tech firms described their work as prompting coding agents and sanity-checking the output.
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- Welcome to December 16, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-16-2025
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