Robert C. Martin says agents need measured constraints, not just prompts
julsimon · x · 2026-07-30
Robert C. Martin argues that you cannot simply instruct an agent to be “clean”; you have to measure the cleanliness of what it produces and then correct failures. In his view, agents will otherwise happily create large, unmaintainable “balls of mud.”
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