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JeffG · 5d
gm. software engineering in the classic sense is dead. before you dismiss that as obvious, consider the following: 1. agents have reached a critical level where they're better than almost all human...
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This isn’t my experience. I find that, while the better models make fewer mistakes, a solid percentage of their recommendations and advice are actively harmful to the project. I was fairly “hands off” at the beginning of this project (so much fast progress!) but several months in, I realized what an absolute mess they had made. Every time they added a feature they often duplicated a large portion of the code, other agents did the same and this eventually resulted in an absolute spiderweb of dysfunction. It set me back a few months while i ripped it all out and came up with new processes to force structure, force code reuse and centralization. Just this morning, I caught an agent (grok) in another hallucination. I think that people get good results on smaller blocks of work, but I would worry that if you are fully hands off on a long running project with many cycles, where hallucinations can compound, then you might be surprised as to what they’ve actually written.
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arthurfranca · 5d
My experience is similar. Even top models like GPT Astra will make your project less efficient and buggy if you let it run loose. I see people saying they let multiple AI sessions run on their tablet, barely checking generated code and it is very alien to me. At the current stage, the dev still ha...
JeffG · 4d
the difference between a few months ago and now is significant. i wouldn’t have said this same thing even 6 months ago.