There was a REALLY annoying period where I'd give it full control of a VM and a dedicated project folder and it'd continually refuse to delete anything I asked it to or just silently archive it, even though everything was already in a git repo. It seems to have gotten somewhat better about that now, but I still include "create cleanup scripts to delete unnecessary project content" in the default steps before doing the final merge on a change.
Had to tell it to update it's agents.md to not do that...
Works especially well for transient/hard to repro bugs. It’ll either set breakpoints or write a monitoring script, go to sleep, get woken up by the harness when the bug trips, inspect state, put together a new build based on a hypothesis built from the debugging, flash it, and loop. I’ve had sessions run completely autonomously for over a day and come with a beautiful one-line solution to a gnarly race condition.
In that regard it’s like a human: you can read code all day if you want and you might get somewhere, but being able to inspect what happened, build a new theory, test it, and iterate is way more powerful 99% of the time.
When I was younger I thought we would be having exabyte hard drives by now.