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A genuine builder reflecting on agent engineering practice decay — hard-won perspective on why practices have half-lives tied to model capability curves, firmly in this swamp's world.

Practices Have a Half-Life. Architecture Shouldn't.

by stack7212d agostack72.dev

https://stack72.dev/practices-have-a-half-life-architecture-shouldnt/ ↗

Vibe coding, spec engineering, loops, graphs. The labels keep changing because the model keeps changing. Every practice you build to compensate for today's model has a half-life, and the model is what's setting the clock.