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So at what point are you doing more work on the agent than working on the code directly ? And what are you losing in the process of shifting from the code author to LLM manager ?

My experience is that once I switch to this mode when something blows up I'm basically stuck with a bunch of code that I sort of know, even tough I reviewed it. I just don't have the same insight as I would if I wrote the code, no ownership, even if it was committed in my name. Like any misconceptions I've had about how things work I will still have because I never had to work through the solution, even if I got the final working solution.



My thoughts exactly. They generate a pile of sludge if left to their own devices. Sludge that you will take incredible amounts of time to understand.

The amount of tech debt these things accumulate unchecked is massive.

In some places it doesn’t matter, in some places it matters a lot.




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