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AI agents do a terrible job and only hinder the good workflows already adopted by professional teams
montfort on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Documenting decisions to manage cognitive discipline for agents.
Got in the way: AI agents hinder good workflows without documentation discipline.
… These documents now have a dual purpose because they now serve to manage cognitive discipline too, so that agents do a better job than they would with vibe coding. Because without that discipline, what you say is absolutely true: AI agents do a terrible job and only hinder the good workflows already adopted by professional teams.