alt Hacker NewsI find that that doesn’t work in the long run. Software agents are not yet capable of maintaining a decently active repository for extended periods of time.
I am all for delegating everything to AI agents, but it just becomes a mess over time if you don’t steer things often enough.
Not my experience at all. If anything, they make it cheap enough to deal with tech debt that it is far easier to justify being strict.
EDIT: I'll add that you can't expect it to guess what you want, but you can let it manage how it delivers it. We don't expect e.g. a product manager to dictate how developers deliver the code, just what the acceptance criteria is, and that's where I'm headed.