Coding is solved—tactically: how do you stop agents from AI-slopping your codebase?

raxxak · reddit · 2026-09-06

Amid the revived "coding is solved" debate, the author argues it only holds for tactical programming: Claude can build a feature in a big codebase easily, but often without maintainable, architecturally sound choices—e.g., recreating the same button from scratch instead of extracting a shared component.

The open question: how do you give agents strategic-programming awareness and prevent AI slop from degrading your codebase over time? The author invites practices for making Claude strategic rather than tactical.

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