5 Questions Your Coding Agent Won't Ask | Make the Mess Confess

Your coding agent's pull request passes every test, has clean names and a docstring, and takes three hours in production. Data structures for people who build with coding agents: not a DSA course, an interrogation manual. Five questions that make the code confess. Chapters 0:00 The pull request 1:12 Question 1: What's n in production? 1:23 What didn't get commoditized 2:07 Question 2: What's the access pattern? 3:04 Question 3: What grows, and what makes it stop? 4:00 Question 4: How many round trips? 4:51 Question 5: Who controls the input? 5:44 Put the questions in your review prompt