Rethinking Duplication and Validation in the Agentic Era
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-07-12
This response builds on the vision of "agents writing code while humans read it," arguing that many static designs are merely "half-baked" because validation used to be too expensive. In the agentic era, as validation costs drop, many static constraints can be abandoned.
The author further points out that when agents continuously read and sync with the codebase, duplication and replication aren't necessarily bad things; instead, they could become an engineering paradigm better suited for collaboration.
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