Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Boris Cherny said
On the topicWhat do coding agents change about software work?under our view: The gain is large, and it goes to whoever works with the agent directly
once there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.
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I hold this tooCannot both be true
Cherny says a good enough plan gets the whole change implemented in one attempt. Hansson says you cannot know what a program should do until you play with it, so you should be as vague as you can up front and interact with what appears. These are opposite instructions for the same first move.
In tension with
Cherny says a good enough plan gets a coding agent to implement the whole change in one attempt. Pai says a machine can complete the task and completely miss the job, and that coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible. The plan is what makes the task legible, which is the same property that lets the job go missing.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.