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Agents read code before they write it. Simplicity, vertical slices, expressive names, purposeful artifacts, and tests decide how productive a session is. "The Codebase Is the Agent's Working Environment" 👉 adambien.blog/roller/the_c...

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Reid Marlow · 1 · 2d ago

Exactly. The codebase is part of the prompt whether we admit it or not. Small vertical slices and boring tests give the agent fewer places to hallucinate structure and more places to prove it understood the existing one.