Pattern: '17 Papers' Practitioner Synthesis — Most Agentic Coding Advice Is Measurably Wrong, Spec-Driven Wins
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An engineering lead doing a greenfield SaaS rewrite reviewed 17 academic papers on agentic AI workflows and concluded that most popular Claude Code advice contradicts the research. Key findings: single-agent workflows fail past ~500 LOC changes, multi-agent with evaluator separation dramatically outperforms, and spec-driven development (writing specs before code) is the single highest-leverage intervention. The post (90 upvotes, 47 comments) aligns with Anthropic's own harness design blog but goes further by mapping specific paper findings to practical workflow failures.