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laszlojamftoday at 5:45 AM0 repliesview on HN

I use go for work and basically 100% agent-driven. I'd say using go with agents is a lot better than without. We use to have a consistent source of production errors where we forgot the pointer case in type switches (we'd pass a pointer to a struct where a concrete struct was expected and vice versa). AI hasn't made that mistake once in my experience.

That being said, the whole thing about go being "readable" is a little bit of a two-edged sword. Sure, it's straight-forward to read, but it's pretty verbose. And agents are good at producing a lot of text. The problem with reviewing go code for me is to see the forest for the trees. Subtle misunderstandings often hide in the vast amount of code that you have to read through while keeping the whole context in your head.