Coding Agents Change Productivity Metrics: A Discussion on Conceptual Integrity

Conceptual integrity is a concept from The Mythical Man-Month, meaning well-designed software has internal consistency: no surprises, covers the right domain, and everything fits together.

They can raise productivity from 50-200 lines per day to thousands, but this requires high skill and experience to ensure quality.

The challenge is maintaining conceptual integrity, as it becomes easy to add features randomly, leading to incoherent software.

Yes, but with a focus on discipline and continuous review to maintain software quality.