OK, but who is saying that to the llm? Another llm?

We got feedback in this thread from someone who supposedly knows rust about common anti patterns and someone from the company came back with 'yeah that's a problem, we'll have agents fix it.'[0].

Agents are obviously still too stupid to have the meta cognition needed for deciding when to refactor, even at $1,000 per day per person. So we still need the buts in seats. So we're back at the idea of centaurs. Then you have to make the case that paying an AI more than a programmer is worth it.[1]

[0] which has been my exact experience with multi-agent code bases I've burned money on.

[1] which in my experience isn't when you know how to edit text and send API requests from your text editor.