Research and planning documents are tactical execution artefacts to be thrown away and regenerated, because tokens are cheap and a doc that has drifted from the codebase costs you time.

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• A plan that spells out every line of code to change gives you no leverage: it costs as long to read as the pull request, so you end up skimming it and reading the code twice. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026
• The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• Designers should focus on the outcome rather than on building processes or maximising tokens. ISIan Silber16 Aug 2026
• Having an AI agent write tests costs tokens in the short run and saves them in the long run, because the classic failure is that the code does not work. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026
• Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026

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