Things that make your codebase legible to agents (learned the hard way):
1. One source of truth. No content hiding in a CMS the agent can't see
2. Names that say what they do
3. Tests that double as docs
4. Delete dead code. Agents trust it like it's load-bearing
Person A: "Let's index the entire internet!"
Person B: "😂 Sure, just casually rebuild Google. What's next, solving world hunger?"
Ilya Sutskever: "Hold my beer."
The hardest part of being a technical founder isn’t shipping fast, it’s learning when not to.
At @rivva_app, we were building a mission-critical feature: AI that can look through your emails, understand them, and turn them into actionable insights.
It was tempting to build it
