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)_/¯"
"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?
@eniko I’m retired now, but my career was writing code for about three and a half decades. Absolutely agree that documenting code, making sense of code, and understanding the pattern of interaction between different developer’s code is the hard part. And planning for reuse.
In my experience managers of software development almost never got that. Invariably they saw code as some kind of monolithic, homogeneous product that could be mass produced by the cheapest supplier, measured and sliced.
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