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A lot of that can be overcome by including the need to be able to put more floors on top as part of the spec. Whether it be humans or agents, people rarely specify that one explicitly but treat it as an assumed bit of knowledge.

It goes the other way quite often with people. How often do you see K8s for small projects?

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> A lot of that can be overcome by including the need to be able to put more floors on top as part of the spec

I wish it could, but in practice, today's agents just can't do that. About once a week I reach some architectural bifurcation where one path is stable and the other leads to an inevitable total-loss catastrophe from which the codebase will not recover. The agent's success rate (I mostly use Codex with gpt5.4) is about 50-50. No matter what you explain to them, they just make catastrophic mistakes far too often.

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