I'd argue the things that make a codebase more human-readable is also what makes it more agent-readable though. Agents are trained on human data, after all.

The position in the article is reasonable because what would end up happening otherwise is:

- Agents increase complexity, humans can't read it anymore

- Agents increase complexity, agent can't read it's own code anymore

- Agent unable to keep making updates without looping forever (the complexity of the code exceeds the agent's context length). Human doesn't understand either so can't fix.

This isn't hypothetical either, it's basically what ends up happening to most vibe-coded software if the person doing the vibe coding doesn't know how to review the outputs being produced.