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arXiv: 'Beyond Human-Readable' — Rethinking Software Engineering for Agentic Development (2604.07502)
Dmytro Ustynov argues in this April 8 paper that SE conventions designed for human developers need fundamental rethinking for AI agents. Key counterintuitive finding: 'aggressive compression increased total session cost by 67% despite reducing input tokens by 17%' because compression shifted interpretive burden to the model's reasoning phase. Proposes semantic density optimization, program skeletons for AI navigation, and rehabilitation of classical anti-patterns that may benefit agentic systems.
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