Coding Agents: Plan or Iterate? No Plan Survives Contact with Reality
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-08-15
The article discusses a debate on coding agent workflows: planning (spec/design first) vs. iterating (short prompts, refining results). It argues that since agents can handle the labor of iteration, you should let them run in the 'lab' to discover surprises and edge cases, rather than relying on unpredictable plans.
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