[skydhash]

> This has no relation whatsoever to the sentence you quoted.

Maybe I wasn’t clear. What I wanted to convey is that the use of programming languages, paradigms, patterns, and other software engineering principles is related to the human side of programming.

You can solve a problem correctly, but with the resulting code being hard to parse. Or you can write readable code but with bugs. And almost everyone prefers the latter.

So badly written means incomprehensible code, mostly due to the size of it in the case of Agents. It’s all right if no one cares about the code. But if you expect someone to review it, changeset that even the author don’t understand is slop.

[vidarh]

So again, this presumes that the result must be incomprehensible. That is not at all my experience. It may become incomprehensible if you let it, just as is the case with human developers. It won't be if you enforce reviews, and your harness demands cleanups and sets clear standards.