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Dex Horthy argues agents should read source code over docs and summaries

AIDex Horthy says he cannot back a $32M paper but agrees that summaries of codebase directories only help if they speed up work without lowering quality. He argues that unless a team builds evals for its own codebase, it should accept a small speed cost and read from source each time.
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I cannot cosign the $32m paper but yes I am nodding along to this one pretty hard

Only reason for any kind of doc/summary (eg compacted summary per dir down the hierarchy) is if it increases speed without reducing quality , but unless you’re buildings evals specific to your codebase watching like a hawk, simpler answer is live with a little speed hit and just go from source every time

I still can’t get over the overall framing of “codebases for humans” vs “codebases for agents”

And also mintlify/docs in general probably serve as one of those “primary sources” if your codebase is closed and your users’ agents need a primary source to integrate it

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No. We've got to stop applying old human-centric patterns to working in the new era. delete all your wikis. have an agent answer questions from source instead. at spawn we have: - zero dashboard tools - zero docs - we do not make or use summaries everything we do is primary sources + intelligence Nothing to go stale Nothing to organize Nothing to navigate Always exactly up to date Perfectly personalized The answers get better with every model If we want to see a chart, we ask for it, and we have it in a minute If we want an answer to a question, we ask it, and we have a to-the-minute correct answer
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Original title: I cannot cosign the $32m paper but yes I am nodding along to this one pretty hard

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