alt Hacker NewsTo be clear, I'm not saying they solve high-level software design.
The goal is to prevent the agent from getting derailed by basic noise. Forcing it to deal with strict TS errors, dead code (Knip), or broken formatting in the feedback loop keeps the context clean.
It’s less about architecting the app and more about giving the agent immediate stderr signals so it stays on the rails.
> they solve high-level software design
That's not what I was getting at either, but the design is pervasive in your program, not just something that sits as a document on top, but codified in the actual program.
> The goal is to prevent the agent from getting derailed by basic noise
Ah, I see. Personally I haven't seen agents getting slower and less precise of that, but I guess if that's the issue you're seeing, then it makes sense to try to address that.
Out of curiosity, what model/tooling are you using, only Claude Code? I've mostly been using Codex as of late, and it tends to deal with those things pretty easily, while none of the agents seems to be able to survive longer on their own without adding up too much technical debt too quickly. But maybe that's at another lifecycle than where you are getting stuck currently.