cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/27682092
[…] Coding agents are now also introduced to production codebases. After 12 months, we are now beginning to see the effects of all that “progress”. Here’s my current view.
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All of this compounds into an unrecoverable mess of complexity. The exact same mess you find in human-made enterprise codebases. Those arrive at that state because the pain is distributed over a massive amount of people. The individual suffering doesn’t pass the threshold of “I need to fix this”. The individual might not even have the means to fix things. And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it.
With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
For some interesting context, the same author also wrote this piece about building his own AI agent: What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
This isn’t just some AI hater with zero credentials. Even people who have intimate, domain-specific knowledge and experience with these tools think they’re bad.
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Slowing down isn’t typically a good strategy for either of those animals in my experience
Slowing down isn’t typically a good strategy for either of those animals in my expexperience
With the picture, the article author of course alludes to Aesops fable The tortoise and the hare where the tortoise wins a race between the two, after the hare mocking the tortoise for its slowness.
There are many variants. A German variant is between hare and hedgehog where the hedgehog, which turns out a bit smarter than the hare, teams up with his identical-looking wife. When the hare arrives at the goal, they are waiting saying “I m here already”, and suggest the astonished hare to repeat the race over and over, back and forth, until the hare falls dead.
The hedgehog variant reminds me of the Bugs Bunny variant where the turtle has a bunch of turtle friends/relatives.
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