Mixed
When I review them, I often discover that they didn’t do what I really wanted - sometimes Claude made it faster by incurring expensive costs, or doing a migration that would be risky in prod, or making a tradeoff that’s not worth it
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In the thread “The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simple prompts yield functionally correct commits.
Got in the way: Output often misses true intent, incurring expensive or risky tradeoffs.
I often use simple prompts like “make it faster” and get back functionally correct commits. When I review them, I often discover that they didn’t do what I really wanted - sometimes Claude made it faster by incurring expensive costs, or doing a migration that would be risky in prod, or making a tradeoff that’s not worth it. Perhaps I could set up a workflow to handle this without reading the code. …