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voidhorse • today at 12:14 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> As AI agents diffused through the company, Anthropic began producing more code per person

Anyone who has been in software for a while should hear alarm bells going off when they read this. Every line of code is a liability, not a trophy. This is what happens when people who don't know and don't care to learn about the existing body of knowledge in a discipline "reinvent" it.

Give it another year or two and Anthropic will be writing all about how they lowered LOC and got agents to be more conservative about generating new code and introduced a "verification gate" for every new line produced.


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mrleinad • today at 12:20 PM

That verification gate will be automated as well.