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I've become hesitant to unleash coding agents simply because the code base ends up looking like the victim of drive-by coding
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In the thread “Slop is not necessarily the future”, replying to this comment
Helped: Exploratory, throwaway code, and simple linguistic tasks like renaming variables.
Got in the way: Critical path code, complex abstractions, and simple fixes requiring high token burn.
… Maybe not. I've become hesitant to unleash coding agents simply because the code base ends up looking like the victim of drive-by coding, littered with curious lambda functions, poor encapsulation, etc. The only thing I use coding agents for is exploratory and throwaway code, like one off scripts. …