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Am I alone in not prioritizing the quality of prose produced by my coding agent? My foremost and almost only concern is how well it can engineer software.
by Exoristos 2mo ago
Am I alone in not prioritizing the quality of prose produced by my coding agent? My foremost and almost only concern is how well it can engineer software.
- andy55a 2mo agoWhen you spend 8 hours a day reading it, it has a pretty big impact. At least to me, its style is exhausting. Also very important for software itself. Documentation, tickets, code comments etc
- Exoristos 2mo agoI agree it's useless for any final-draft user-facing copy. However, again, I'm much more concerned about a reliable software engineering process, which Claude (and me in the loop) gives me in a way I have learned not to trust (at least not yet) from others.
- anthonyrstevens 2mo agoPeople love to complain, particularly if being anti-AI is a big part of their identity.