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LLM Programming and Theory Building

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Kevin Lynagh describes trying to rewrite his Tasktron workflow harness with LLM coding agents (Astra 6, Opus 5.5, Sol 6.1) over several weeks and failing to get concise, well-factored code, since the models kept adding overlapping concepts, scattering mutable state, and writing overly specific tests.

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