I'm having somewhat good experiences with AI but I think that's because I'm only half-adopting it: instead of the full agentic / Ralphing / the-AI-can-do-anything way, I still do work in very small increments and review each commit. I'm not as fast as others, but I can catch issues earlier. I also can see when code is becoming a mess and stop to fix things. I mean, I don't fix them manually, I point Claude at the messy code and ask it to refactor it appropriately, but I do keep an eye to make sure Claude doesn't stray off course.

Honestly, seeing all the dumb code that it produces, calling this thing "intelligent" is rather generous...

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tqwhite 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I would love it if someone explained what their ten agents Ralphing away were actually told to do.

I suppose if you are doing something that truly can be decided based on a test but, I just don't see it, at least for anything I do.

	▲	apitman 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think ralphing is for purely vibe coded stuff, where you're literally never looking at the code and only asking for changes to the final output. If I'm reviewing all the code, so far I'm still the bottleneck even with a single agent and I don't see an easy way to change that.