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When an Agent Writes 1500 Lines at Once, That's the Warning: Cut the Feature Until You Can Actually Review It
Mitchell Hashimoto's blunt rule for agent coding: any diff over ~1500 lines is too big — a signal to cut the problem up. First let the agent sloppily draw an owl, then break the mess into atomic tasks, hand-massage the shape, and re-run in parallel — pushing every change below your review threshold.
Forget Google Docs — Use GitHub as Your AI Agent's Shared Workspace
Will your AI agent's work survive until tomorrow? Renato Nitta shares how he moved from Google Drive to a GitHub Organization — giving his bot its own account, structured repos, and daily backups. Git isn't just version control. It's your agent's long-term memory.