Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
by CuriouslyC on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:45PM
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It's architecture dependent. A fairly functional modular monolith with good documentation can be accessible to LLMs at the million line scale, but a coupled monolith or poorly instrumented microservices can drive agents into the ground at 100k.
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Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
by yuedongze on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:00PM
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I think it's definitely an interesting subject for Verification Engineering. the easier to task AI to do work more precisely, the easier we can check their work.
Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
by CuriouslyC on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:22PM
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Yup. Codebase structure for agents is a rabbit hole I've spent a lot of time going down. The interesting thing is that it's mostly the same structure that humans tend to prefer, with a few tweaks: agents like smaller files/functions (more precise reads/edits), strongly typed functional programming, doc-comments with examples and hyperlinks to additional context, smaller directories with semantic subgroups, long/distinct variable names, etc.