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hghbbjh
7mo ago
> it's how good senior engineers already work The other trick all good ones I’ve worked with converged on: it’s quicker to write code than review it (if we’re being thorough). Agents have some areas where they can really shine (boil
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hghbbjh
7mo ago
> In all, maybe 30-45 minutes of my actual time to add a small feature Why would this take you multiple days to do if it only took you 30m to review the code? Depends on the problem, but if I’m able to review something the time it’d take
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7mo ago
> but in doing what I don't know as well. Comments like these really help ground what I read online about LLMs. This matches how low performing devs at my work use AI, and their PRs are a net negative on the team. They take on tasks
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7mo ago
> Why would you test implementation details Because this has never been sufficient. From things like various hard to test cases to things like readability and long term maintenance. Reading and understanding the code is more efficient an