In practice, this meant working depth-first: breaking down larger goals into smaller building blocks (design, code, review, test, etc), prompting the agent to construct those blocks, and using them to unlock more complex tasks. When something failed, the fix was almost never “try harder.” Because the only way to make progress was to get Codex to do the work, human engineers always stepped into the task and asked: “what capability is missing, and how do we make it both legible and enforceable for the agent?”
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link not tracked: I didn't quite get this notion of working depth first, but I can see how it would fall out of their principle of no human -- coding.
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link not tracked: I caught the idea of making dim - legibility -- higher, but "enforceability" kinda eluded me. The only thing I can think of, as I read this again, is linting, but I know there's more to it. I'll keep my eyes peeled as I read further.
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breaking down larger goals into smaller building blocks (design, code, review, test, etc), prompting the agent to construct those blocks
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SDLC building block -- design, SDLC building block -- code, SDLC building block -- review, link not tracked