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He builds the code base to be easy for an agent to navigate, not to be perfect for himself, down to keeping the names the model picks.
Drawn from what Peter Steinberger said
Subjectcoding agents
What Peter Steinberger actually said
- Peter Steinberger Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
I- i- like, we are in a stage where I'm not building the code base to be perfect for me, but I wanna build a code base that is very easy for an agent to navigate.
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Hansson says over-prescribing makes an agent worse for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse. Steinberger shapes the entire codebase around what the model finds easy, down to keeping the names it picks. Both are accommodating the machine, and they disagree about which end of the work the accommodation belongs at.
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