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We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different…
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Mar 8, 2026We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by horseradish292251

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