{"slug": "just-surf", "title": "just surf", "summary": "The tech community is cycling through contradictory best practices for coding agents, from planning-heavy workflows to context management and MCP usage, but the author argues that these opinions are futile because the technology evolves too quickly to codify.", "body_md": "# just surf\n\npeople are trying to codify coding agents into best practices\n\n- “opus plan, codex execute”\n~~“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!”\n~~“learn to leverage MCPs!”~~~~“don’t touch MCPs, they bloat the context window!”~~- “use MCPs”\n\n- “use one agent to check the other’s work”\n\nstop having opinions\n\njust surf\n\nthe water will be different tomorrow", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-surf", "canonical_source": "https://ben.page/surf", "published_at": "2026-07-24 03:39:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 03:52:13.152940+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-surf", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-surf.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-surf.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/just-surf.jsonld"}}