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Talk · 21m · AI Engineer Code Summit 2025

No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases

Dex Horthy · on AI Engineer

A research, plan, implement method for getting coding agents to work in large, messy codebases.

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What you'll take away

  • Split work into research, plan and implement, each in its own clean context
  • Keep the context window well under full; quality drops as it fills
  • Compact deliberately: write progress to a file and start fresh
  • Review the plan carefully, because one bad line in a plan becomes hundreds of bad lines of code

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Context engineeringAgentic codingPlanning

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