Ask Your Coding Agent to Explain Itself in Pseudocode — It Just Clicks
JnBrymn · x · 2026-08-20
While discussing a complex refactor with a coding agent, the author found natural-language explanations weren't landing. Asking the agent to instead write concise Python pseudocode — fake APIs, comments, whatever it needed — made the architecture immediately obvious. His takeaway: maybe the future of code is helping humans understand what their agents are planning to build.
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