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Verity Stob presents a humorous index for measuring the accumulation of 'cruft' on a PC, modeled after the Beaufort wind scale, describing stages of system degradation.
A developer reflects on a messy core data structure in their app, acknowledging technical debt but accepting they will never prioritize fixing it unless it hinders AI code generation.
The tweet discusses the problem of bloat in AI agent harnesses, agreeing with Kaffu's critique that harnesses become "rich man's toys," and advocates for a composable architecture of small, replaceable workers to reduce drift and keep systems cheap and debuggable.