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Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up by CuriouslyC on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:45PM (#46196044)
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.
Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up by yuedongze on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:00PM (#46196223)
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 (#46196465)
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.
Re:AI should only run as fast as we can catch up by lukan on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:11PM (#46197696)
Aren't those all things, humans also tend to prefer to read?

I like to read descriptive variable names, I just don't like to write them all the time.