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Overly prescriptive instructions make a coding agent worse, for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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    David Heinemeier Hansson 26 Aug 2026

    it was actually being damaged by overly prescriptive humans. And any programmer who's had a pointy-haired boss knows exactly what that is like. When the boss walks into the room, doesn't know anything, starts telling you how to program, how to code. What do you do? You sulk. You write shittier code if you're mandated to do things that are against your better judgment. Why would an agent not be the same?
    spoken · official transcript hear it at 0:56:38 · all korrents from this recording

    DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com

First recorded here 26 Aug 2026 · How quotes work

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