Agent coding's underrated perk: an append-only, contextualized log of your project's history
vboykis · x · 2026-11-02
vboykis highlights an underrated plus of running agents by default: you get an append-only log of all code changes on top of git — a contextualized history of the project. The attached screenshot shows the agent's summary of a classic solo-developer arc: rapid prototype → feature pile-on → painful TUI rabbit hole → hard simplification → infrastructure/deployment polish, which she says 'mogs' her own self-assessment.
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