Probably because bad code that you create initially without thinking that it's a core piece of your stack becomes depended on for its crappy behavior, and then you can't change much without breaking workflows.

I seem to recall Fred Brooks talking about that experience with OS/360 JCL (maybe just straight up in The Mythical Man Month?).

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CoolestBeans an hour ago | parent [-]

If agents really are superpowerful at programming tasks why not just have it rewrite the tool that the majority of your customers use and have it recreate the bugs? I mean presumably its the primary force behind the current version so what's the major cost there?

	▲	XenophileJKO 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I imagine it comes down to economics.. there isn't much upside to fixing the last 20% of issues that the dumber faster models are missing. The cost to serve, latency profile ,and internal demand for a maximal intelligence model would probably keep it pointed at harder and more valuable problems most of the time.