i'm at a weird point with agentic development where if i go slowly, use agents mainly as context gathering, i love shipping and am proud of the product the moment i try to do more with agents though things become a mess. theoretically loops solve this but i am doubtful↗

My heuristic is that any diff an agent generates over ~1500 lines is too big and is indicative that the problem needs to be decomposed. This is my general pattern now for feature work: 1. Try to implement the whole feature, loosely guided. I call this the "draw the owl" prompt i…↗