Token density
Clean code is bad for vibe-coding. For decades, the software engineering industry has put a lot of effort into making code readable — for example, books like Clean Code and Refactoring became influential because they focused on readability, maintainability, and improving existing code. And the progress is remarkable: we have come up with a lot of architectures to make code readable. And for LLM agents readability is even more important. If an agent is like a senior software engineer with amnesia, they need to be able to understand the project with the least effort. ...