Mixed
For those small but distracting tasks, they are very helpful and I (mostly) passively produce a lot more small PRs to clean up papercuts around our codebase now
dgunay on Hacker News
In the thread “Building a Personal AI Factory”
Helped: Small distracting tasks and cleaning up papercuts in the codebase.
Got in the way: More involved tasks requiring frequent intervention and manual review.
… I can sort of see the vision. For those small but distracting tasks, they are very helpful and I (mostly) passively produce a lot more small PRs to clean up papercuts around our codebase now. The "cattle not pets" mentality remains relevant - I just fire off a quick prompt when I feel the urge to get sidetracked on something minor. …