Comment by 98codes
19 days ago
Makes me wonder if the pattern will continue to follow, and we start to find certain agents—maybe due to config, maybe due to the training codebase and the codebase they're pointed at—that will become the single one out of the group we can rely on.
Give instructions, get good code back. That's the dream, though I think the pieces that need to fall into place for particular cases will prevent reaching that top quality bar in the general case.
Yeah, this is what we used to call "hiring." People who think it can ever come with guarantees make incompetent and tiresome clients.
I can't wait for the first AI agent programmer to realize this and start turning down jobs working for garbage people...or exploiting them at scale for pennies each, in a labor version of the "salami slicing" scheme. I don't mean humans using AI to do this, which of course has been at scale for years. I mean the first agent to discover a job prioritization heuristic on its own which leads to the same result.