Dear Codebase: A Letter From Your Coding Agent
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Dear Codebase, It's me. Your agent. I broke your build last night. I want to explain why, because it's going to keep happening unless we talk. I have ten things to say. None of them are new. All of them are your fault. I mean that with love. 1. Let me reason locally. When I open a file, tell me what it eats, what it returns, what it depends on, and what it touches on the way out. If I have to open fourteen other files to understand one method, I will open fourteen other files, and somewhere around file nine I will forget why I started.