Have your agent prototype in a throwaway branch before the real build
serious_mehta · x · 2026-09-08
Developers share a practical agent coding workflow: first have the agent implement a feature "to understand the problem," then ask it to rip it out and rebuild from scratch. Another suggests building a prototype skill: the agent prototypes in a throwaway branch, and once the path is cleared for both agent and human, you do the actual implementation on the real branch.
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