alt Hacker NewsPutting too much trust in an agent is definitely a problem, but I have to admit I've written about a dozen little apps in the past year without bothering to look at the code and they've all worked really well. They're all just toys and utilities I've needed and I've not put them into a production system, but I would if I had to.
Agents are getting really good, and if you're used to planning and designing up front you can get a ton of value from them. The main problem with them that I see today is people having that level of trust without giving the agent the context necessary to do a good job. Accepting a zero-shotted service to do something important into your production codebase is still a step too far, but it's an increasingly small step.
>> Putting too much trust in an agent is definitely a problem, but I have to admit I've written about a dozen little apps in the past year without bothering to look at the code and they've all worked really well. They're all just toys and utilities I've needed and I've not put them into a production system, but I would if I had to.
I have been doing this to, and I've forgotten half of them. For me the point is that this usage scenario is really good, but it also has no added value to it, really. The moment Claude Code raises it prices 2x this won't be viable anymore, and at the same time to scale this to enterprise software production levels you need to spend on an agent probably as much as hiring two SWEs, given that you need at least one to coordinate the agents.