Cathedral Builders Probably Shouldn't Use Coding Agents
4 days ago
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- Cathedral builders are perfectionist engineers who deeply care about code structure and quality.
- Bazaar shopkeepers focus on getting things done and making code extensible for collaboration.
- Coding agents are generally disliked by cathedral builders as they disrupt deep thinking.
- Coding agents are beneficial for research and parallel task handling, even for cathedral builders.
- The metaphor of cathedral builders vs. bazaar shopkeepers originates from Eric Raymond's essay.