Three files per task: the blast-radius cap I impose on every AI agent
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The most useful guardrail I've added to my agentic coding workflow isn't a better model, a longer context window, or a fancier system prompt. It's a hard rule: three files per task. Anything bigger gets split, even when the agent volunteers to do it in one shot. I didn't arrive at this from theory.…
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- 2026-10-11 20:25 · DEV Community — AI
Three files per task: the blast-radius cap I impose on every AI agent