Eniko FoxMay 11

agentic AI in particular is so fucking funny. i run an absolutely *tiny* indie studio and i still ask people "hey could you run me through how this works?" all the time because knowing how things work is a vital part of creating a quality product

how does that work with AI? "hey could you run me through how this works?" and people just go "idk the AI did it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

Show threadEniko FoxMay 11
i feel like the only way businesses fall for this is when they're big enough nobody at any level really knows fully how the product gets made, because it's abundantly clear to anyone who actually knows how products are made that "nobody knows how this works" is the biggest red flag ever
Show threadEniko FoxMay 11

"you can just read the code the agent wrote"

oh fuck off. the whole idea is that agents can churn out code at way higher volumes than people can generate, and the bottleneck when people wrote the code and not "agents" was already code review, because making sense of code is harder than writing it

the only thing you've done is made the code review bottleneck so, so much worse. and this will help you be more productive... how exactly?

Show threadEniko FoxMay 11
so what's the alternative if you can't review the avalanche of slop code? you just don't. and that's basically akin to live coding in the production environment. anyone who attempts this for long enough will be punished for their hubris
Show threadTonyMay 11
@eniko one answer you'll get is that as long as it includes complete code coverage in tests, it should be good.
But here's the thing: the agent wrote those as well - without context of the bigger system - and bugs can and have manifested in code that was 100% covered in tests
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@longhairmoto @eniko also perverse incentives: to increase code coverage, we removed this error handling. Number go up!
May 11 at 10:30amWeb