--- title: Perhaps not Boring Technology after all | daily.dev description: Simon Willison challenges the concern that LLMs push developers toward 'boring' well-represented technologies. While this was true a couple of years ago,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/perhaps-not-boring-technology-after-all-khzbgibpw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Perhaps not Boring Technology after all | daily.dev og:description: Simon Willison challenges the concern that LLMs push developers toward 'boring' well-represented technologies. While this was true a couple of years ago,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/perhaps-not-boring-technology-after-all-khzbgibpw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KHZbGibpw.png og:image:alt: Perhaps not Boring Technology after all 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. # Perhaps not Boring Technology after all **[Simon Willison](https://daily.dev/sources/simonwillison)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Simon Willison challenges the concern that LLMs push developers toward 'boring' well-represented technologies. While this was true a couple of years ago, modern coding agents with long context windows can now consume documentation for private or newly released tools and iterate effectively on unfamiliar codebases. Willison finds that coding agents work well even with tools absent from training data, contradicting the expectation that they would reinforce conservative technology choices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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