// Addy Osmani · 23 February 2026

Stop Using /init for AGENTS.md

Two papers published in early 2026 suggest you might have just made your agent slower, more expensive, and no more accurate. The right mental model is to treat AGENTS.md as a living list of codebase smells you haven't fixed yet, not a permanent configuration.

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