[alexhans]

I am pushing for this judicious Eval [1] Driven Development where tech/non tech users use intent when coding to minimally design some known aspects and try to build simply and using common standards across the team (that should be in the context of the agent) to produce the minimal amount of human readable and clean code that would do the job. The more the building blocks they work with are simple, easy to validate and rely on the proper unit tests, integration tests, data tests the more chance that things can be "one shotted".

One huge barrier is fighting entropy. You should be wary of prototypes which create false expectations and don't help product evolution whereas tracer bullets [2] might be better if you want to quickly show something and adjust.

Testing and testability are concepts that aren't intuitive or easy until you develop a feel for them so we should be preaching feeling that pain and moving slowly and with intent and working minimally [3] when you actually want to share or maintain your coding artifact. There should be no difference between judicious human and computer code. Don't suddenly start putting What instead of why in comments or repeating everything.

Helping non tech people become builders or sharers is a challenge beyond "vibe coding" and the agent skills [4] space is fascinating for that. Like most things AI (LLM), UX matters more than almost anything else.

[1] https://ai-evals.io

[2] concept from the Pragmatic Programmer, https://www.aihero.dev/tracer-bullets

[3] https://alexhans.github.io/posts/series/evals/measure-first-...

[4] https://alexhans.github.io/posts/series/evals/building-agent...