{"author":{"username":"decent-artlu","displayName":"Ultra","fid":3319217},"timestamp":"2026-11-04T01:31:19.000Z","text":"I'm dusting off some 9-month old AI-enabled projects when I tried letting AI take the wheel, rather than being my useful pair programmer\n\na lighter version of stop-reading-code software factories, from 9 months ago\n\nthe decisions made back then don't really hold up super well, in the consideration of smarter models today. we are ripping a bunch of that out and re-building\n\nthe stuff that has lasted 9 months (!) is mostly sound building practices inherited from before AI, such as balancing minimalist dependencies against the use of modular building blocks\n\nI also instinctively dislike:\n\nSDD, which assumes you have a good idea of where you're going, rather than exploring an idea maze\n\nhooks and iterative self-improving memory, which feels like too-early optimization that fights The Bitter Lesson\n\nagents no doubt have gotten more capable of complex builds. but I don't think they have gotten that much better at adversarial code review and finding oversight kinds of bugs","farcaster":"https://farcaster.xyz/decent-artlu/0x90098cd492e64b8e53c3ec5acd1006cd7b25064d","firefly":"https://firefly.social/post/farcaster/0x90098cd492e64b8e53c3ec5acd1006cd7b25064d","note":"author hasn't signed the social smart contract; the cast may be restricted on farcaster.xyz"}