Ben Vinegar

22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse. (opens korrents.com)

  “to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't”

  2026-09-06

• Reviewing AI-written code means asking whether it does anything dangerous, touches only the expected files, is covered by tests and follows architecture convention, then only spot-checking the code itself. (opens korrents.com)

  “what a PR review of AI code looks like for me: 1) does it do anything remotely dangerous 2) does it touch files I would reasonably expect it to 3) do the tests cover the expected behaviour 4) does it follow…”

  2026-09-05

• With coding agents, working out the shape in lower-fidelity mock-ups first beats having the agent build it and then fixing the code: it takes fewer tokens and puts you on a better path. (opens korrents.com)

  “Whereas when you're, when you're ripping on just like a lower fidelity mock -ups that might be like 80 % fidelity that kind of tell you the shape, like you, it takes less tokens. The agent takes less time to generate…”

  2026-09-03