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0 pointsabm5322d ago0 comments

The rebuttal to this would be that you can do many such tasks in parallel.

I’m not sure it’s really true in practice yet, but that would certainly be the claim.

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But can you mentally "keep hold" (for lack of a better term) of those tasks that are getting executed in parallel? Honestly asking.

Because, after they're done/have finished executing, I guess you still have to "check" their output, integrate their results into the bigger project they're (supposedly) part of etc, and for me the context-switching required to do all that is mentally taxing. But maybe this only happens because my brain is not young enough, that's why I'm asking.

rune-dev22d ago

The type of dev who is allowing AI to do all of their work does not care about the quality of said work.

duskdozer22d ago

I think the difference is that you're applying a standard of correctness or personal understanding of the code you're pushing that is being relaxed in the "agentic workflows"

vidarh22d ago

I have the AI integrate their results themselves. That's if anything one of the things they do best. I also have them do reviews and test their own work first before I check it, and that usually makes the remaining verification fairly quick and painless.

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