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> And then when you come back after a few days, you realize that it has overwritten

1. Review what it writes as it writes it

2. Give it a smaller, more focused, scope to make changes

Or, keep vibing but then don't get mad about it.

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Oh, if I had the ability to do these things, agents would be much nicer to use.

Sadly, at my current company, this doesn't seem to be acceptable practice.

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What do you mean? Because management says it makes you too slow? Or is it unacceptable for some other reason?
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Unrealistic deadlines, productivity being measured in PR counts and tokens spent, and generally a 100% focus towards having a software factory produce all code.

In our latest evaluation, one of the criteria was whether you trust AI, with "trust" being defined as letting the AI write all the code, without reviewing it. And of course, not trusting AI meaning that you were behind the curve.

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You won’t hit your PR count metrics that way, sadly.
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