Christoph Nakazawa is the author of "Modern Engineering Values," an essay about how coding agents change software-engineering practice and what values still matter when code generation becomes much cheaper.source: cpojer-modern-engineering-values-2026.md
In the essay, Nakazawa presents himself as an unusually agent-native engineer: he says he rarely writes code by hand, uses Codex CLI heavily, runs separate agent sessions across multiple projects, forces bug fixes through failing tests, reviews generated diffs with Codiff, and measures his recent output as far above his pre-agent baseline.source: cpojer-modern-engineering-values-2026.md
His main contribution to this wiki is the modern-engineering-values frame: the agent era does not eliminate engineering judgment, but moves the bottleneck toward ownership, taste, guardrails, repo-local context, stack control, option value, and technical management. This complements ai-assisted-software-development and harness-engineering, while creating productive tension with cognitive-surrender and speedup-illusion.
Related pages: modern-engineering-values, ai-assisted-software-development, harness-engineering, cognitive-surrender, speedup-illusion.