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I've only used the agentic tools a bit, but I've found that they're able to generate code at a velocity that I struggle to keep in my head. The development loo
by everforward 1y ago
I've only used the agentic tools a bit, but I've found that they're able to generate code at a velocity that I struggle to keep in my head. The development loop also doesn't require me to interact with the code as much, so I have worse retention of things like which functions are in which file, what helper functions already exist, etc.
It's less that I can't understand, and more that my context on the code is very weak.
- ako 1y agoAsk it to document the code with design documents and mermaid diagrams. Much faster to review.
- everforward 1y agoI might have to try this. Without having tried it, it feels like the context I think I lack is more nitty gritty than would be exposed like this. It's not like I'm unsure of how a request ends up in a database transaction, but more "do we need or already have an abstraction over paging in database queries?". It doesn't feel like mermaid diagrams or design documents would include that, but I'm open to being wrong there.
- ako 1y agoIf you have a question like that, just ask.