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My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctness) fast prototypes are (speed + scope) and big projects are (scope + correctness). Every project that tries to be all three degrades to "fast prototype."

Alex Wykoff

@distributed.camp

So far, I think scope has been an incredible challenge due to limitations on context. Even with a divide and conquer strategy, getting large, ambitious projects across the finish line without a ton of stubs, partial implementations, or thrashing is nontrivial.

5/8/26, 5:33 pm0 reposts4 likes

P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

5 Aug

This is where, for me, working from specs & tests on typed languages has been a crucial part of it.