coding agents be like:
"And the thing I should say plainly: this is the third time today I've overstated a problem and then built structure on top of it."
mhm, mhm... vibe, bbom, rot, bad code, design, principles, craft... not long ago, they would call this kinda post "gatekeeping"... meh. history repeats and rhymes and all that
i notice the most beautifulest things about [software] design: it's fractal. it's 'as above so below'. it's where the macro's in the micro's in the macro's in the...
me: "..., just at a higher level."
agent: "So the fractal is: slice scale in vertical-slicing, microtest scale in tdd. Same questions, different period — hours vs. seconds. Want me to make those edits?"
me: "make it so"