Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap
by abalashov on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:21PM
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One cannot build something robust just by thinking about it _a priori_, and while this was somewhat at the periphery of the author's argument, it is important.
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You can’t get every detail right up front, but you can build a robust foundation from the beginning.
The argument seems to be that AI is causing managers to demand faster results, and so everything has to be a one-shotted mess of slop that just barely works. My point is that it doesn’t take much longer to build something solid instead. Implementation time and quality/robustness are not tightly coupled in the way they used to be.