Martt argues that AI agents change how we should think about readability/ /verification and human understanding..
If agents are writing/ navigating and maintaining more of our code 🧑‍💻 why should human readability remain the primary measure of quality?
https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2117953152376799498?a=RNh_8QwRJpAkQkkTz48&s=46
X (formerly Twitter)Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) on XWe need to reconsider our priors on code readability. Humans, compared to agents, are pretty slow at understanding large quantities of text. So in the old days, readability was important so the human could efficiently grok what was going on. So readability now comes down to: 1. Can a human, if n…
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