alt Hacker NewsI have seen plenty of "my backlog has never been shorter" comments here.
I'm interested in how that turns out 6 months later.
In my team, we have plenty of enhancement requests from users. We address those that make obvious sense and are trivial to do but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small. Because we don't know if there is more than a single user that can actually benefit from it, if it has unintended consequences, or if it causes maintainence issue down the road.
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> but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small.
Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers.
> I'm interested in how that turns out 6 months later.
That really is the real question, isn't it?
For me it has been a mixed bag so far, I've seen some companies use this tech in a slow and deliberate manner to do what they were already doing but a little bit faster. I've also seen hail Mary passes where the whole codebase was turned over to agents to go wild on with an undersized team and little to no QA. Time will tell...