just surf

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.

just surf people are trying to codify coding agents into best practices - “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