In my experience restricting programs that can be expressed is a good thing, even more so with agentic engineering. The more guardrails there are, strong typing/TDD/computer use/..., the solution space shrinks and chance of a robust solution increases. Sure maybe this burns more tokens going in circles but it feels less like a slot machine more like a robot searching for a solution for a well-defined problem.
Devs have very strong opinions about dynamically typed programming languages. But reasons such as "exploratory programming", "expressiveness", "taste" that makes them feel good to program in for humans does not matter for agents. Agents don't care that the language "limits them" and prevents them from expressing the code in a succint way because it would not type check.
Devs have very strong opinions about dynamically typed programming languages. But reasons such as "exploratory programming", "expressiveness", "taste" that makes them feel good to program in for humans does not matter for agents. Agents don't care that the language "limits them" and prevents them from expressing the code in a succint way because it would not type check.