AI agents don't know their code makes codebases harder to work with
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-09-10
Stocko observes that AI agents don't realize their code degrades the codebase: e.g., agents embed computed numbers in comments around a set of params, so if any of those values change, everything has to be redone—an unnecessary effort even for an agent.
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