Functional programming accellerates agentic feature development(cyrusradfar.com)
3 pointsby cyrusradfar2 hours ago1 comment
  • midnight_eclair2 hours ago
    even if i would generally agree with the principles, no amount of markdown prompting is going to increase my confidence in agent's output and so i keep asking this question:

    > what do you use for normative language to describe component boundary, function and cross-component interactions?

    something i can feed into a deterministic system that will run a generative suite of tests (quickcheck/hypothesis/clojure.spec) that will either give me the confidence or give the agent the feedback.

    • cyrusradfar2 hours ago
      OP / Author here, I started closer to where you are but ended up realizing I've led a few eng teams and was never satisfied with code quality. What I COULD be satisfied by was moving our metrics in the right direction. Testing coverage, use cases covered by E2E / integration tests, P99/backend efficiency metrics, cost of infrastructure and obviously user growth along with positive feedback from Users.

      That said, I don't "vibe" because it creates great code I love reading, but I can monitor and move the same metrics I would if I was managing a team.

      I also use code tours a bit, and one of my first tools I needed and built (intraview.ai) was to support this need to get deep in the code the Agents were claiming was ready to ship.