people are trying to codify coding agents into best practices
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“opus plan, codex execute”
“spend tons of time planning”(update: no one cares, agents got better at understanding intent)“learn context management”(update: no one cares, compaction is good now and context windows are abundant)- “learn to leverage skills!”“learn to leverage MCPs!”“don’t touch MCPs, they bloat the context window!”- “use MCPs” -
“use one agent to check the other’s work”
stop having opinions
just surf
the water will be different tomorrow
source & further reading
ben.page — original article