Comment by aprilthird2021

He forgot "but the 15 year old behemoth codebase that doesn't fit in any context window and isn't well documented and changing of which requires changing tons of ancillary files not easily connected to each other logically".

That's what a lot of the highest paid programmers work on. I work in such a firm and the agent they have for us is incapable. And it's the latest and greatest from whoever coders love to rave about online.

I love that AI written tests and other generally greenfield things work well and can be vetted quicker than writing and getting the code oneself. But for most more complex tasks it's not there. I'm ready when it is though