• Matt recommends The Pragmatic Programmer. 1:34:01
  • He recommends A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. 1:34:01
  • He recommends the first three chapters of Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans, especially for ubiquitous language and domain modeling. 1:34:01
  • The host's closing synthesis is that older software books have become newly useful because their ideas guide how agents plan and work. 1:34:54
  • The host emphasizes leading words like "tracer bullet" and "vertical slice" because they help models follow software engineering ideas already present in their priors. 1:34:54
  • The host closes by arguing that clean code helps both humans and agents because agents revisit the codebase fresh on every run. 1:35:51