I believe the quality of my current product is higher than what I would have created pre-agentic coding
jeffreyrogers on Hacker News
fuzzers for a few minutes
In the thread “Is it all just vapourware?”
Helped: Planning, visual regression tests, fuzz testing, and logging/alerting infrastructure.
Got in the way: LLMs still introduce bugs and require heavy planning involvement.
… many years of professional and hobby development before using agents since I think that's given me the ability to make good architectural decisions (and helps me resteer the LLMs when they want to do something suboptimal), but my involvement in actually writing code is quickly going to zero. That said, they aren't perfect and they still introduce bugs, but I believe the quality of my current product is higher than what I would have created pre-agentic coding. Things I've found helpful in keeping quality high: …