Matt Pocock(@mattpocockuk):My hot take from chatting to @poteto is that we should use MORE abstractions in the AI age You can use them (combined with harsh lint rules) to reduce the design space available to the agent and constrain them only to good decisions. Combined with the fact that high-leverage abstractions let you do more with less code - so, more token efficient. Plus, unwinding the damage from a bad abstraction is much cheaper with agents. This runs counter to a lot of folks thinking that agents just want to read the raw code. They can, but they're not maximally efficient that way. Be braver! Design abstractions.

2026.10.03 16:46

My hot take from chatting to @poteto is that we should use MORE abstractions in the AI age You can use them (combined with harsh lint rules) to reduce the design space available to the agent and constrain them only to good decisions. Combined with the fact that high-leverage abstractions let you do more with less code - so, more token efficient. Plus, unwinding the damage from a bad abstraction is much cheaper with agents. This runs counter to a lot of folks thinking that agents just want to read the raw code. They can, but they're not maximally efficient that way. Be braver! Design abstractions.

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