AnalysisAI AgentsSeptember 15, 2026

Addy Osmani on running coding agents in brownfield codebases

Osmani argues agents thrown unsupervised at older codebases produce code that "works" but with wrong system design and brittle tests. He says the repository is no longer a complete description of how the system behaves, so hidden constraints must be made visible first.

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