[latentsea]

You can organise the code well once, template that and put guardrails in place for it to follow the structure you and the team have agreed is good. The engineering task becomes building the system that is capable of building the system to a high standard.

[vrighter]

so if these "guardrails" really do work (which they don't), why wouldn't you just use them up front?

[vrighter]

It will usually just keep on adding workarounds for workarounds. Tech debt increases.

[braebo]

Avoiding this with Opus has been trivial in my experience.

[darccio]

Even with Sonnet or "lower" models like Kimi is trivial. The only thing I still find with AI-generated code is some degree of overengineering.

[latentsea]

Skill issue. We don't have that problem. The opposite is true. Every time the harness does something we're not happy with we figure out how to engineer out that failure mode. Tech debt decreases.