Perhaps not Boring Technology after all

Simon Willison argues that modern coding agents no longer enforce "boring technology" choices — they can work effectively with new or private tools by consuming docs at context length and learning patterns from existing codebases. He distinguishes this from what models *recommend* by default, citing a study showing Claude Code has strong stack preferences (GitHub Actions, Stripe, shadcn/ui near-monopoly). The emerging Skills mechanism — already adopted by Remotion, Supabase, Vercel, and Prisma — is flagged as key infrastructure for helping agents handle non-standard tooling.