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Keeping a codebase clean now pays off directly rather than aesthetically, because a coding agent will copy the patterns already in it almost exactly.

Drawn from what Simon Willison said

Subjectscoding agentssoftware quality
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software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

What Simon Willison actually said

  1. Simon Willison Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
    one of the magic tricks about these things is that they they're incredibly consistent. If you've got a code base with a bunch of patterns in, they will follow those patterns almost to a T.

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    Watch from 11:31 plays here

    ↗Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com

    19 Mar 2026 · video · 28m · spoken · machine transcript

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