1. an adversarial agent harness that uses one agent to create a plan and implement it, and another to review the plan and code-review each step.

2. an agentic validation suite -- a more flexible take on e2e testing.

3. some custom skills that explain how to use both of those flows.

With this in place you can formulate ideas in a chat session, produce planning artifacts, then use the adversarial system to implement the plans and the validation layer to get everything working e2e for human review.

There are a lot of tools you can use for these things but I chose to just build the tooling in the repo as I go.

How hard would it have been to create a test repo, make a branch with monolithic specs, make another branch with these scattered specs, run the same exact task against them both? Pick a few tasks. Run them a few times each. Analyze the results.

Democrats, for example, have loved to stoke the class war for the last 10+ years. Every week you hear a new take on how billionaires could solve homelessness or cancer or something if only they were taxed more. The left wing radicals are just as bad for America. Partisans hate it but the only true path out of this mess is centrism.

But the governance is not great. That was actually the whole point I was making. And getting back to that: The getting things done is abysmal. Taxes are high. Spending is loose. No progress is made on things the state takes on as priorities (housing costs, high speed rail, homelessness). It's just not well managed. But from the "one side good, other side bad" POV it should be great, no pesky republicans to get in the way. I don't know if there's a lesson there but it's an intersting question to ask.

So to all the partisans out there who are sure things would be better if "their side" had total control, I ask: what the hell is going on with California then?? We should be modeling the best governance in the country and even the world, but yet, our government is basically dysfunctional and our state is great despite it.