alt Hacker Newsthat doesnt seem particularly horrible, as long as you as the engineer can still go change things in the code package and surrounding infrastructure to improve the output, and make sure that the agent is actually making the right stuff the first time you see the outputs
eg. setting up better feedback loops, improving CI/CD, breaking changes up at the right scale, etc.
you i assume also can then put in more work up front, doing simulations of solutions, lean proofs, and so on?
more engineering, less plumbing
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my (gender neutral) dude.
WAKE UP.
Literally anyone can write a Jira ticket. US engineers are expensive. What do you think will happen when the powers that enacted this policy decide that the ticket to merged into prod rate is acceptable to them?
The change is turning me from someone who writes pretty good reliable code, to someone who has to read and review pretty bad code. If you think this is an improvement, you're nuts.
It is inserting a pretty unreliable middle-man know for errors and hallucinations, that often just goes down and stops working for reasons we can't control into a workflow that has worked well for a decade, and we're paying extra to really break-even on the time spent creating new code.
Just because "everyone else is doing it". Not because it's proving to be a boon in productivity.