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15 million tokens and an hour and a half later I now had a project that could not build, the filters were not implemented and my trust in AI agentic workflows broken
jpc0 on Hacker News
15 million tokens
In the thread “Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using the chat interface for trivial C++ code generation.
Got in the way: Agentic workflow failed to build project or implement filters.
… Some context, using the gemini webapp it would split out the exact code I need with the interfaces I require one shot because this is truly trivial C++ code to write. 15 million tokens and an hour and a half later I now had a project that could not build, the filters were not implemented and my trust in AI agentic workflows broken. It cost me nothing, I just reset the repo and I was watching youtube videos for that hour and a half. …