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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by colinplamondon on Monday September 29, 2025 @06:42PM (#45419760)
That code taste of yours, your ability to understand the minutiae, makes you superhuman at managing agents.

Comments, docstrings, naming, patterns - by defining better approaches and hold agents to them, the results will be better. Way better.

You can't grow a meaningful codebase without solid underlying primitives. The entropy will eat you alive.

Systems architecture is becoming more important - systems that play well with agents wind up looking more like enterprise codebases.

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by cies on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:04PM (#45419950)
Amen to all your points.

All senior devs know what a project looks like that had only juniors and no tech leadership. One big mess. Project stalls. Team spends 98% on bugs and emergencies, and still cant get a grip on curbing the drama. Why? All the point you say for AI are true for juniors as well: when to tell someone to redo a (part of) a project/feature? That same intuition works when collabbing with AI.

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by colinplamondon on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:09PM (#45421200)
Super well said - right. “Try again with quick feedback” vs “try again with significant feedback” vs “try again, but only a subset of the original task” vs “let’s have someone else do this”
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