I keep wondering if we're forgetting the fundamentals:

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/

Sure, you eat the elephant one bite at a time, and recursion is a thing but I wonder where the tipping point here is.

I'm playing with that too (everyone should write an agent; basic sub-agents are incredibly simple --- just tool calls that can make their own LLM calls, or even just a tool call that runs in its own context window). What I like about Eternal Sunshine is that the LLM can just make decisions about what context stuff matters and what doesn't, which is a problem that comes up a lot when you're looking at telemetry data.