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joshstrange • today at 8:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The quality of software we are creating at my day job has risen. Tests where there were never tests before, all new code has tests, it's all more rigorously reviewed, and we find prod bugs faster with the help of agents.

My own company has shipped a slew of features that were going to die in the backlog, tracked down almost every bug that comes through Sentry, and given me time to focus on bigger things (it's a 1-person company).

For myself, home automations that I was never going to spend the time getting "just right", I've replaced MyFitnessPal with an app I built, I've got more self-hosted projects running than ever before, and I've built websites and apps to scratch mine or my families needs that were never going to get built in the past.

When I run into an annoyance on my computer(s) now I don't just put up with it, I send an agent after it to figure out why it happened, how we can stop it from happening again, and/or if we can write some custom software to make the problem better or go away. It feels magical.


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xyzsparetimexyz • today at 8:41 PM

None of that is new though. Slop clones don't count

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