Ugh it is Uncle Bob, not going to torture AI with this guy.
replyBut the fun part is that all of the proper software engineering practices are aimed at lowering amount of context a developer has to keep in his mind. So it directly applies to agent context. Less verbose code, less tokens to burn, separation of concerns, lower chance agent breaks something unrelated etc.
>>Pretty soon no one is going to read any of the code AI produces and that's a scary thought.
reply>This is a misconception. Have your favorite agent *summarize this video for you*: https://www.youtube.com/live/zcLPGC-tvgk?si=YR68aHlFESD053bh
I can't tell if you're joking here
I am not generally against using AI to reduce the amount of information you need to pay attention to, and I was not joking. There are multiple places in that interview with good articulation of the reasons why software fundamentals still matter, and what happens when you don't look at at least some of the AI-generated code.
replyWhy don't you just quote them then? Or quote whatever the LLM you used gave.
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