[alfons_foobar]

I am not sure this approach can take you very far.

In my experience, CC makes it very very easy to _add_ things, resulting in much more code / features.

CC can obviously read/understand a codebase much faster than we do, but this also has a limit (how much context we can feed into it) - I think your approch is in essence a bet that future models' ability to read/understand code (size of context) improves as fast or faster than the current models' ability to create new code.

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Ouch. I guess this came across as "my approach". I haven't done enough agentic coding to feel like I know enough to have a worthwhile, but at the moment I'm squarely in your camp. I don't believe it's going to work to let an agent loose expanding a teetering codebase with little to no concern for maintainability. We're going to have to painfully relearn the lessons of pre-AI coding, whatever that means with AI in the mix.