Software Architecture

Textual disabled public PRs after low-quality AI submissions became unmanageable. Practitioners cited cargo-cult code, weak harnesses, long-horizon failures, and AI-generated PR spam as reasons to keep review and tests in the loop.

Robert C. Martin argued tangled code confuses agents and promoted agent-led refactoring with tests. Other reports cited high Sol spend, under-10% unattended completion, and failures once bugs or complexity appear.

Reports described GPT-5.6 Sol adding needless abstractions and Fable spending quota on many subagents for small changes. The debate frames lighter setups and senior review as safeguards against agent-made tech debt.

Simon Willison highlighted Jarred Sumner’s Bun rewrite from Zig to Rust as an AI-assisted workflow using trial runs, dynamic planning, adversarial review, and verification. One estimate put API token cost near $165k.