SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

Steve Yegge's new essay argues that long-running coding-agent loops will push teams beyond reusable harnesses and toward bespoke, graph-driven software factories.

A viral post argues AI works better on standardized codebases, making rewrites economically sensible. HN pushes back with the Mythical Man-Month and maintainability concerns.

A new arXiv paper shows coding agents can pass loose backend tasks, then fall apart when architecture, database, and ORM constraints pile up. The fix is not longer markdown. It is executable constraints.