Months of agent-driven dev: 'agents can't do big refactors' is outdated
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-01
A developer says he has very complex software experiments that AI agents have been iterating on for months, and argues that the idea that agents can't refactor or create architecture resilient to lots of changes is "pretty outdated" — a practitioner's pushback against the popular claim that agents can only handle small projects.
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