--- title: Coding agents as the new compilers | daily.dev description: AI coding agents are following the same historical pattern as compilers and high-level languages — abstracting away lower-level concerns so developers can... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-agents-as-the-new-compilers-s4zrmtsgj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Coding agents as the new compilers | daily.dev og:description: AI coding agents are following the same historical pattern as compilers and high-level languages — abstracting away lower-level concerns so developers can... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-agents-as-the-new-compilers-s4zrmtsgj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S4zrmtSGj.png og:image:alt: Coding agents as the new compilers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coding agents as the new compilers **[Anil Dash](https://daily.dev/sources/anildash)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI coding agents are following the same historical pattern as compilers and high-level languages — abstracting away lower-level concerns so developers can focus on higher-level problems. The emerging practice of 'agentic engineering' involves defining specs, providing context, and enforcing tests rather than writing code directly. The author argues that rather than rejecting this shift, developers should embrace and steer it — especially by building vendor-neutral, open-source/locally-hosted alternatives to Big AI tools — to retain agency over their craft and avoid ceding control to companies with ill intent toward working coders. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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