TRtroupo·Oct 17, 2026
> You're framing things like this is some grand conspiracy. OP is literally describing flat tires and your rebuttal is "these magical round tires i keep hearing about." It's very strange.
It's not. OP is literally stating a fact that he sees in his work with LLMs. Without even saying what he's working on.
Your (and others') immediate assumptions:
- he only works on one project
- this only project is high stakes
- they are not magicking their project with right magicks. Sorry, not "harnessing agents"
- they lack structure/linting
Ah yes. It's very strange of me to call out these assumptions.
Now, let me step in the OP's shoes as a person who sees the same issues across multiple projects and doesn't believe in magic (and has tried all of them, except the very expensive ones).
Here's the entirety of OP's text, emphasis mine: "Here I am still
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unable to stop myself from doing line-by-line code review. I notice too many things (redundant code, duplicate code, overly complex architecture, etc.) by doing it that I feel it would be careless not to."
So:
- no amount of "harnessing the coding agent very strongly" will fix those issues.
Also, "harnessing an agent strongly" is as meaningless as "there's some magic that will fix it". Agents will always continue with code duplication and sloppy architecture. It's a fact of reality.
You can run a "swarm of review agents" that will catch some of that, but this is just a) acknowledging the problem, and b) handing off the problem to the same LLMs that produced the problems in the first place and hoping that they will magically fix them
- no amount of linting will help with things like code duplication, redundant code, or overly complex architecture. No linter catches bad architecture. Very few languages have tools to do semantic code analysis and catch duplicate or redundant code.
- no idea what you mean by "structuring". To structure code correctly you need human input because <see issues described>. Any other "structure" is just running a bunch of the same LLMs on top of various markdown files telling them "make no mistakes" in various ways.
I am not kidding or lying that just today I was "structuring" Opus 5.5 to remove duplication from code it was creating as I was watching it. Despite all the "structuring" and "harnessing" etc. And catching previous duplication introduces by Fable and Astra despite all the "structuring" and things like https://github.com/elixir-vibe/ex_dna