A lead architect’s rules for coding agents

Beyond Coding
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“do you review the code? oh yeah. and if I don’t understand it, I throw it away.” ⠀ Lead Architect Carlos Kelkboom on his rules for coding agents: why agents are bad at making changes but great at one-shot execution, why his main agent never touches files, and how he scaffolds projects so sub-agents can run without producing slop. ⠀ full new episode on Beyond Coding Podcast, "Lead Architect Reveals His Rules for Coding Agents" (episode 272)

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