Discover Broadly, Implement Narrowly (opens in new tab)

I have been building software with coding agents across more than isolated functions and local fixes. The work has increasingly included requirements, architecture, implementation, review, correction and maintenance. That experience has made me wonder whether many agentic coding workflows are optimising for the wrong finish line. The usual question is whether the agent completed the task. Did the feature work? Did the tests pass? Did the build succeed? Was existing behaviour preserved? All of...