Comment by zoogeny

I mean, I have. I use them every day. You often see them literally saying "Oh there is a linter error, let me go fix it" and then a new code generation pass happens. In the worst case, it does exactly what you are saying, gets stuck in a loop. It eventually gets to the point where it says "let me try just once more" and then gives up.

And when that happens I review the code and if it is bad then I "git revert". And if it is 90% of the way there I fix it up and move on.

The question shouldn't be "are they infallible tools of perfection". It should be "do I get value equal to or greater than the time/money I spend". And if you use git appropriately you lose at most five minutes on a agent looping. And that happens a couple of times a week.

And be honest with yourself, is getting stuck in a loop fighting a compiler, type-checker or lint something you have ever experienced in your pre-LLM days?