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there's a new word i'm hearing a lot in the most frontier-pushingest coding-agent builders: _program design_ for even the best agentic coders trying to maintain code quality, we've all seen it - you come up with something to build - you research the codebase, riff with the agent, align on what the end state looks like - you (or the agent) breaks it down into tasks for individual agents / context windows - you rip the implementation - the code works or is close to working - and it follows your spec to the letter but the code itself is still trash - poorly factored methods - leaky abstractions - tramp data - overloaded interfaces - try catch, useEffect, global variables everywhere I thought models would catch up, or that this wouldn't matter - that if we stayed in spec-land, understood the high-level architecture, and tokenmaxxed hard enough, we would be able to skip code review and just stay shipping doesn't seem to be working out that way I have seen agent-owned codebases spin up out of nothing... ...and I have seen them collapse into rubble within 6 months now there's something to be said about "skate where the puck is going"... ...and I can't tell you what tomorrows models will be capable of but I *can* tell you that *today*, models are mid-to-bad at program design you can solve some of this with memory / agents.md, but the scope of program design is massive. - entire companies have been built to help you implement it - books, classes, and professions have spun up around it are you building something to last? Or are you slinging more slop on the pile? anyways, thats the post, stay tuned for a fun announce tomorrow y'all 🙂