Christoph Nakazawa
Author of "Modern Engineering Values," arguing that agentic engineering shifts the bottleneck from hand-written code toward ownership, taste, guardrails, repo-local context, and judgment.
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.1
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.1
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.
Mentioned in 5 pages
Engineering with agents
Thinking next to AI
Work, teams and companies