Kent C. Dodds: Fix the primitives your coding agents work with, not their slop
johnlindquist · x · 2026-09-25
Kent C. Dodds argues that when coding agents produce slop, the answer isn't to give up or fight with cleanup — it's to improve the primitives the agents have to work with. He demonstrates the idea in an accompanying video.
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