You should have a sub agent adversarially enforce KISS before every commit.
We wouldn't accept such behavior from any other tool, machine, or computer program. At least most of us would not. To paraphrase the old saying: Some people, when confronted with a problem with an AI model think "I know, I'll use an additional AI model." Now they have two problems.
I find it very intriguing that two lineages of models -- from two different companies -- that are supposed to be painstakingly RL'd to become human-level programmers are actually consistently bad at it out of the box in very similar ways. One would think that at least one of OpenAI and Anthropic would (could) have pushed their model to a direction different from "if you can solve a 100-line problem in 10,000 lines, do it".
Also, programming isn't a destination, it is a process and everyone has a different ruleset on what that process looks like. Writing a computer program of any complexity is not a determinalistic process. Trying to compare it to a detemanilisic tool will just leave you with broken analogies and a poorer understanding of the world.
Or another way to say this. If programming were deteminalistic we'd have solved it without AI.
Von Neumann, 1952: "Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components." The whole result is that you get an arbitrarily reliable machine out of unreliable parts by adding more unreliable parts and voting. Every ECC memory and RAID array descends from it.
You can now re-position your initial solution and sell the client access to some agents that will implement & configure the ecosystem to suit their initial needs!
And don't forget the agents that you'll need to train the customer to use the whole thing!
If you don't want a million agents arguing about things, you simply don't ask for that. One agent is sufficient to solve most issues.
Will ask OpenAI to write me that agent! Hope the agent is not over engineered or else unsure how to solve the bootstrap puzzle :D
It's super easy - just ask your agent to set up a code review commit gate.
"Going forward, do not allow a commit without a sub agent code review."
I am omp pilled, but as the other comments say, any good harness lets you do this in one or the other way.
unrelated: all my homies use their claude subs with omp, and aside from sometimes having to rety the connections, it works, and nobody got banned (yet)