Comment by ai-christianson

> This is a good anecdote but most software engineering is not scripting. It’s getting waist (or neck) deep in a large codebase and many intricacies.

The agent I'm working on (RA.Aid) handles this by crawling and researching the codebase before doing any work. I ended up making the first version precisely because I was working on a larger monorepo project with lots of files, backend, api layer, app, etc.

So I think the LLMs can do it, but only if techniques are used to allow it to hone in on the specific information in a codebase that is relevant to a particular change.