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Spend Your Compute on Correctness

For developers fully embracing AI coding agents, the bottleneck has shifted from productivity to correctness. This article explores how correctness can fail at three layers—product, architecture, and implementation—and argues that validation should consume a significant share of agent compute, introducing three patterns for deploying validation compute.

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  • The bottleneck for AI agent users is now correctness, not productivity.
  • Correctness failures occur at the product, architecture, and implementation layers.
  • Validation (testing, code review, scope checks) should be a major part of agent compute budget.
  • A persistent, specialized reviewer agent per task is the most valuable validation pattern.

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