I still have to baby sit Astra and opus 5.5 into reusing existing structures/functions, not reinventing the wheels
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Got in the way: Agent reinvents existing structures and adds excessive code for minor issues.
… Exactly, you have to know what to ask, especially on large codebase. I still have to baby sit Astra and opus 5.5 into reusing existing structures/functions, not reinventing the wheels, telling them "yes this might be a legit race condition, but you added 5000 LOC and I'm pretty sure it will never ever be a problem in production given it would require 5 distinct catastrophic failures at once to trigger it, if it ever happens log it in sentry and we'll have a look by then". Some people are really really bad and won't even think about …