His team's agent-written model of the business went stale and one false entry spread

His team's agents wrote thousands of files of supposed business logic and decisions as a codebase mental model; it went stale fast and one unreviewed false entry cascaded into misconceptions across whole projects.

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The team's agents write thousands of files of supposed business logic and decisions as a codebase mental model
It goes stale fast
One unreviewed false entry cascades into more

Why it’s worth knowing

A thousand files of almost-true is worse than ten files of true.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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