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Scaffolded, owned code over wrappers

Dex Horthy argues against wrappers around internal abstractions and instead advocates for scaffolded, developer-owned code—comparing ideal tooling to shadcn, where generated code is fully owned and modifiable by the developer.

Dex Horthy·Published

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12-Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer

Original excerpt

You don't need a wrapper around an internal thing. You need something more like shadcn, which is like scaffold it out, and then I'll own it, and I'll own the code and I'm okay with that.
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