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2026-03 people starting to care much more about design principles and correctness

Also, people have more time to think about architecture because the agents are doing the actual coding. Hence people working with these systems seem to be placing an increased emphasis on design principles. And because the agents drive down the cost of refactoring, people can afford to actually move their systems towards their more ideal architectural patterns. In the past, it would have been too costly, so the projects were frequently deferred or cancelled.

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There is a reason why even the most AI forward teams are dusting off their old copies of design principle books this month. This is not out of disillusionment or existential angst or a resistance to change.
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emphasis on design principles

It's more that as we sober up from the post holiday euphoria of how the new models can now do long horizon tasks more autonomously, many of us are now witnessing these bottlenecks and trying to find our way out.
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