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digitaltreestoday at 3:55 PM1 replyview on HN

I have had the same experience and feel pressured to adopt it. I had one former colleague say “you really have to stop looking at code” almost incredulous that I was uncertain about whether we should let models write really bad code and architecture that never would have been allowed in the before times. I will say when I let the agents go autonomous I often find I spend more time refactoring than if I had moved slower and forced them to write good code and follow project architecture patterns.


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lrvicktoday at 4:13 PM

I use agents to build exactly what I want like I am pair programming with a jr engineer, and review every line of final output before I make a PR.

I would have zero tolerance if anyone that did anything less in my orgs. Owning and understanding the code you submit is the one job that matters most now.

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