Simplify your codebase workflow: a business-outcome prompt beats agent cross-reviews
boringmarketer · x · 2026-09-05
The author shares a practical, reusable prompt for simplifying a codebase's rules, skills, and verification. After experimenting with having coding agents review each other's work — which spiraled into recursive abstractions, minutiae, and endless back-and-forth while finished features still had missing pieces — he rebuilt his workflow around describing a business outcome and letting agents carry it to something testable and shippable.
Key points:
- Frameworks like Superpowers and Compound Engineering offer real value (planning, delegation, review, verification, capturing lessons), but the hard part is deciding how much of each a task actually needs.
- The post includes a copy-paste prompt you can run in your own repo.
- Core thesis: define the agent workflow by the endpoint "something I can actually test and ship," not by the number of review loops.
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