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shsksjtoday at 12:41 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yep, this is the sweet spot. Though I still let it type code a lot - boilerplate stuff I’d be bored out of my mind typing. And I’ve found it has an extremely high success rate typing that code on top of its very easy for me to review that code. No friction at all. Granted this is often no larger than 100 lines or so (across various files).

If it takes you more than a few seconds or so to understand code an agent generated you’re going to make mistakes. You should know exactly what it’s going to produce before it produces it.