# Interactive explanations - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

<https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/interactive-explanations/#atom-everything>

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## What Jamie wrote

Simon Willison on using coding agents to build animated/interactive visualizations that explain how agent-generated code actually works — tackling "cognitive debt." One chapter in his broader Agentic Engineering Patterns guide. Concrete and practical if you're thinking about how to stay literate about AI-written code.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

- [Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ae38530b7263/) (simonwillison.net, February 26, 2026)
- [A quote from claude.com/import-memory](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0c55a3e7235b/) (simonwillison.net, March 3, 2026)
- [Anthropic’s Project Glasswing—restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers—sounds necessary to me](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/642a7b3884b4/) (simonwillison.net, April 9, 2026)
- [Anthropic’s Project Glasswing—restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers—sounds necessary to me](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/db3d2f24908f/) (simonwillison.net, April 9, 2026)
- [Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1d174141f23a/) (simonwillison.net, April 21, 2026)

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- [Andrej Karpathy: "It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months."](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/73601d463cc4/) (xcancel.com, March 3, 2026)
- [Redis Patterns for Coding Agents](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2508a906abc6/) (redis.antirez.com, March 3, 2026)
- [Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative – On my Om](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/464410e8a809/) (om.co, March 3, 2026)

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