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    > …our services interact with http apis…
    > … 
    > …If it was internal apis or libraries…

That reminds me that I wanted to ask you: How good is your agent with complying with your system's architectural patterns?

Given my admittedly limited experience with coding agents, I'd expect a fully autonomous agent to have a tendency to do naïve juniory dev stuff.

Like, for example, write code that makes direct calls to your data access layer (i.e., the repository) from your controllers.

Or bypass the façade layer in favor of direct calls from your business services to external services.

FWIW: Those are Java/Spring Boot idioms. I'd have to research whether or not there are parallels in microservices implemented in Go.

The architectural patterns are similar in go. The part of the prompt that contains the refactoring concerns that I wanted to fix are specific to this go project. You can very well add what you just explained and not only will it follow it, it will cleanup the parts when it isn't done. You don't need to fully explain the concept as it probably nows them well, just mentionning the concept you want to fix is enough.

In my experience the latest model (Opus 4.6 in this case) are perfectly able to do senior stuff. It's just that they don't do it from the get go, as they will give you the naive junior dev solution as a first draft. But then you can iterate on refactoring later on

    > …You don't need to fully explain the
    > concept as it probably nows them well…

Unsurprisingly, many would disagree [1]…

> 1 Establish a Clear Vision

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You have experienced the world, and you want to work together with a system that has no experience in this world you live in. Every decision in your project that you don’t take and document will be taken for you by the AI…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916586

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