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I write all my code with LLMs (Opus)

but I can say that, anyone experienced will notice how you really can't just "let them loose" on the codebase because they'll lose context, not understand the architecture, not have good vision/ideas about the codebase etc.

so I'm bottlenecked by following the code generation and then having to review and respond

and there's so many times where I go "wait but can't we just do x?" and then the model goes, "oh let me see.. yes we can"

if you were to just use agents w/o looking at code you'd have complete spaghetti in no time

maybe the future is that you embrace the spaghetti and just treat code as a black box where all you care about is the input/output

but my intuition tells me that it's not really viable yet. you'll take many steps forward and many steps back.

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Hahahahaha it’s like boom and bust, I’m hitting that limit right now with something I’m working on. You push velocity too hard then hit a wall of bugs, then the agent gets a stern talking to and you go back and refactor :)
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I think there’s lots more throwaway code out there than you are imagining.
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