Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth

It is rare for me to quote Mike Tyson, be he was onto something with this. Here is the thing with coding agents: you will not tell a coding agent to do something in one sentence and then something usable falls out. I mean… there is a chance - depending on your prompt. If you tell it to copy something that exists millions of times on GitHub. But anything even remotely more involved than that, things will be a bit more tricky, especially if you are dealing with an existing system and not one shot-ing a Tetris clone. I have mostly one or two shot things with my coding agent, but that is also me giving it very detailed and specific instructions, resulting in only a handful lines of code changes. Something I can easily review without spending too much mental energy on it. While working on LazerBunnys controller for my agents I asked myself a question: What if I want to join the cool kids for once and ignore everything I ever learned about engineering and irresponsibly yeet millions of…