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0 pointsdarkwater22d ago0 comments

> My experience with what coding assistants are good for shifted from:

> smart autocomplete -> targeted changes/additions -> full engineering

Define "full engineering". Because if you say "full engineering" I would expect the agent to get some expected product output details as input and produce all by itself the right implementation for the context (i.e. company) it lives in.

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fnands22d ago

I agree that "full engineering" was a bit broad. I should probably have said something like "agent-only coding"?

I.e. the point where the agent writes all the code and you just verify.

darkwaterOP22d ago

The "you just verify" part can take indeed a lot of steering and hand-holding to get the right implementation for the current company/department/project context. Otherwise you might be just generating tech debt at scale.

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