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NoClaude · 23 Jul 2026

I find myself rejecting these PRs all the time because these agents still "just don't get it"

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In the thread “Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Agents lack taste and fail to understand unwritten specs.

… Now Claude will gladly take a Jira ticket, write-up a plan/spec, write tests, implement the feature, verify the tests pass, address static-analysis issues, push branch, and submit the PR - and if-the-program-works then it's "correct" and so surely there's nothing really to review and so merging the changes should be a breeze... but I find myself rejecting these PRs all the time because these agents still "just don't get it"[2]. (But I'm sure they'll "get it" eventually; you can't stop progress). …