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My experience of writing code with agents over the last 18 months in particular has been a steady erosion in my need to read the code
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In the thread “How I use AI (Oct 2026)”, replying to this comment
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I run a solo SaaS that is closing in on $500k ARR, so I have real skin in the game here, and I agree with you. My experience of writing code with agents over the last 18 months in particular has been a steady erosion in my need to read the code. There are still a few parts of the codebase I'm particularly cautious about doing code review on, and I spot check PRs outside of that, but Opus 5.5 + Sol / Astra / Fable for reviews has been another paradigm shift. …