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CharlieDigital • yesterday at 6:43 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

    > A trading floor is a bad place for unreviewed code written by people who can't read it, and the information barrier problem would be reason enough on its own. Requiring that agent-written code come from people trained to review it is a sensible rule for a regulated business.
Jokes on them: devs are also losing the capacity to read the code. Can't mix move fast, high volume with "read code".

Agentic engineering needs to be "all in".


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threatofrain • yesterday at 8:35 PM

Why must agentic engineering be all in?

0c3ca83 • yesterday at 6:52 PM

At which point it's vibe coding, not engineering.

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reactordev • yesterday at 6:53 PM

Worse, instructed to just keep prompting and not even look at it, let the software factory review and regen if quality < 0.8