alt Hacker News> What on earth makes you think that you can't adopt this exact approach with agentic coding??
It can be done, but it’s not where the hype and the practice is. It’s all about number of commits, number of PR, churns in LoC, which has no bearing on software quality and usefulness.
Something like caddy[0] is just 2700+ commits over 7 years. That’s like 32 commits a month in average. Even if you apply an exponential decay (going from greenfield to mature project), the latter years would have been way peaceful. I know AI can help in some cases, but is it such a pressing need. That would been like taking a car to go somewhere less than 10m away.
Most (mature) open source projects progress a few changes at a time. Most of the time is about ensuring that nothing breaks due to the change.
I completely agree. And yes, I think the current game-ification of repositories (more stars! more PRs!) is pretty counter-productive.
I suspect that projects that run hot and fast with LLMs will be very much like driving your car at 250 kph to the shops. You might get away with it briefly, but you'll ultimately crash and burn. As with all things -- the obsession will fade soon enough, and agentic coding will become just another tool, where those who use it well will be valued. At least, so I hope. We will see, I guess.