<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Armin Ronacher reflects on a 24-hour coding challenge with friends, highlighting the frustration and predictability of working with Xcode.</li><li>He discusses the lack of proper documentation and the tendency to blame users rather than address tooling issues in engineering.</li><li>Ronacher emphasizes the importance of measuring code quality with programming agents and how it can assess a project's health objectively.</li><li>Using agents allows for quantifying the success of code creations and offers a less expensive and more objective approach compared to human evaluation.</li><li>He stresses the significance of factors like good test coverage, error reporting, ecosystem stability, minimal abstractions, speed, and user-friendly development environments for both agents and humans.</li><li>When agents struggle, it reflects challenges faced by humans, prompting a need for evaluating technology choices and developer experiences.</li></ul>

Armin Ronacher: We Can Just Measure Things

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