> The real secret to agent productivity is letting go of your understanding of the code and trusting the AI to generate the proper thing

The few times I've done that, the agent eventually faced a problem/bug it couldn't solve and I had to go and read the entire codebase myself.

Then, found several subtle bugs (like writing private keys to disk even when that was an explicit instruction not to). Eventually ended up refactoring most of it.

It does have value on coming up with boilerplate code that I then tweak.

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maplethorpe 8 hours ago | parent [-]

You made the mistake of looking at the code, though. If you didn't look at the code, you wouldn't have known those bugs existed.

	▲	PunchyHamster 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		fixing code now is orders of magnitude cheaper than fixing it in month or two when it hits production. which might be fine if you're doing proof of concept or low risk code, but it can also bite you hard when there is a bug actively bleeding money and not a single person or AI agent in the house that knows how anything work