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