I’ve found that if I do even 3 months of pure agentic coding with no code reviews, it’s aged 10x faster than a human coded codebase
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aged 10x faster than a human coded codebase
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Got in the way: Silent failures, poor conventions, and lack of long-term architecture.
… It also has no sense for long-term architecture or organization, or when to make tradeoffs for less complexity because it’s a temporary or prototype feature that needs to stay easy to change. I’ve found that if I do even 3 months of pure agentic coding with no code reviews, it’s aged 10x faster than a human coded codebase so it’s like a 30 month legacy codebase now. I know people who are obsessed with AI coding and they’re throwing away projects they’ve built over a year and starting over because it’s become too slow to make changes. …