Mitsuhiko on evaluating EffectTS: "can I read and understand the code"

mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-02

Armin Ronacher on whether Pi might adopt EffectTS: one of his criteria is simply whether he can read and understand the code. The decision comes down to overall complexity and familiarity; with agents writing more code, readability matters less — which is why they're considering it at all — though some of what they're building doesn't map nicely to it yet.

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