Lean, DDD & Software Architecture
Vienna, Austria
I believe everything in this post. I’ve experienced similar. But I’d caveat with:
- Doing this with current tools requires knowledge of how to properly prompt and guide them.
- You need to be good at code reviewing and/or keeping batch sizes small to keep it on track IMO.
- did a few successful wild refactors (completely swapped data layer and removed a bunch of third party code, completely new end-to-end test suite)
- reduced a very tricky bug to a minimal repro
mostly autopilot but my feedback was absolutely crucial at every stage
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
I believe everything in this post. I’ve experienced similar. But I’d caveat with:
- Doing this with current tools requires knowledge of how to properly prompt and guide them.
- You need to be good at code reviewing and/or keeping batch sizes small to keep it on track IMO.