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It's not unmaintainable if you have 1000 agents maintain it.
by dist-epoch 5mo ago
It's not unmaintainable if you have 1000 agents maintain it.
- lionkor 5mo agoIt is unmaintainable even if you spend 100k per month on tokens to have LLMs pretend they are maintaining it, if they slow down and make little ACTUAL progress. Sadly real progress is impossible to measure, if all you have is an overexcited """engineer""", a credit card, and so much cash spent you could hire all the best engineers you know and still have money for a porsche.
- hombre_fatal 5mo agoWell, software presumably has a goal of accomplishing something for some end-user, so the progress should be trivial to measure: are features/changes being completed? The marketing ploys of OpenAI/Anthropic where agents build something that nobody uses might be hard to track given that there are zero users. But what about everyone using agents for real software? It's trivial to prove that agents make progress.
- jimbokun 5mo agoYes that is the entire point. Measure features deployed in production and their value in gaining and retaining customers or users, cost reductions, reduced incidents and outages, etc. Lines of code is completely irrelevant as a metric.
- visarga 5mo agoIt's not unmaintainable if most of it is tests. Just have it write tests until it becomes safe for AI.
- habinero 5mo agoI hate I can't tell if you're joking without checking posting history lol
- jimbokun 5mo ago…and then the CEO sees the token bill…