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0 pointssjdjsin7mo ago0 comments

My understanding of your argument is:

Because agents are good on this one specific axis (which I agree with and use fwiw), there’s no reason to object to them as a whole

My argument is:

The juice isn’t worth the squeeze. The small win (among others) is not worth the amounts of slop devs now have to deal with.

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tptacek7mo ago

Sounds like a very poorly managed team.

roughly7mo ago

In tech? Say it ain't so.

dingnuts7mo ago

in any organization???

JasonSage7mo ago

I have to agree. My experience working on a team with mixed levels of seniority and coding experience is that everybody got some increase in productivity and some increase in quality.

The ones who spend more time developing their agentic coding as a skillset have gotten much better results.

In our team people are also more willing to respond to feedback because nitpicks and requests to restructure/rearchitect are evaluated on merit instead of how time-consuming or boring they would have been to take on.

bsder7mo ago

> My experience working on a team with mixed levels of seniority and coding experience is that everybody got some increase in productivity and some increase in quality.

Is that true? There have been a couple of papers that show that people have the perception that they are more productive because the AI feels like motion (you're "stuck" less often) when in reality it has been a net negative.

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