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Ending is better than mending
Huxley wrote it as dystopian propaganda for mindless disposability. In the agent era the economics it described have quietly become correct — for code. When the agent produces the wrong artifact, mending spends your scarce attention; ending spends cheap tokens. Revert the commits. Sometimes nuke the repo.
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The plan is the prompt
Why a detailed plan document is the most token-dense artifact you will write for a headless agent fleet. What a plan actually needs to contain, how it anchors the genesis bead hierarchy, and why a bad plan is more expensive than it looks when twenty workers are running it simultaneously.
