alt Hacker NewsCode volume and understanding can be tackled with a proper system prompt. Even afterwards, apart from costing resources, a cross-model optimization can increase quality of the output. Unix philosophy in the system prompt could be useful if the code wants to be worked on later again.
> Unix philosophy in the system prompt could be useful if the code wants to be worked on later again
There is no system prompt that can prevent this. If all you needed was some kind of rather short instruction we'd already have that baked into harnesses a long time ago. The problem is not that agents do not have the right instructions, they theoretically have everything there is to know about software architecture already in their training data.