Thorsten Ball on coding agents: stop fearing slop, always use the latest models
tlakomy · x · 2026-10-26
tlakomy endorses mthenw's take that worrying about accumulating AI slop in your codebase may be outdated six-month-old thinking — modern models are far less likely to produce unmaintainable messes.
The quoted core is Thorsten Ball's article "How I work with Agents" (as of October 2026), whose headline advice is: always use the latest and greatest models, since anything else is potentially a waste of time — if a model is wrong 10% of the time, you don't know which 10%, so you end up redoing work anyway. The author says the piece finally summarizes what he'd been sending friends in DMs.
Related event: Thorsten Ball's Essay on Working with Agents Sparks Debate(4 posts)→
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