Working code is not enough."

Working code is not enough."
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"These days I witness that our AI coding agents are getting really good at one thing: getting to working code quickly. (may be the effect of RL training - tactical outcome reward system)"
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"And that is powerful."
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"But if your goal is to build software that remains easy to evolve, for both humans and AI agents, then generating working code is only the beginning."
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"You still need to know what good code vs. bad code looks like."
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"Software engineering is a rabbit hole at almost every step. There is always another abstraction, another dependency, another edge case, another architectural decision."
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"Your guiding light cannot be:"
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""Claude suggested this.""
""Codex generated it.""
""It feels like the right approach.""
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"The guiding light should be the problem domain, the data, the system behaviour, and concrete evidence from your use cases."
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"Work from the inside out."
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"Understand the domain."
"Understand the data."
"Understand the constraints."
"Make decisions based on evidence."
"Then let the coding agent move incredibly fast.