Comment by barrell

This blog post makes me actively want to use something besides fly. Putting aside the massive condescension in the article…

… most of the code you write is tedious boilerplate? What do you do all day? I can honestly say the most tedious code I write is migrations, because I have to edit three files. I do this like once a week. It would take way longer to explain to an ai what to do than just do it myself.

… you run the ai on your procrastination and as a result do heads down work? Seriously? 1, programming with AI is like playing a slot machine. It keeps you hooked just on the verge of winning the jackpot for far longer than the tedious task would have distracted you. And let’s say a good agentic case - it runs for 30 minutes before it’s done. That’s not even enough time to “boot up” a serious problem, and your already having to put it aside to go check the work you yourself are saying is mediocre? And you’re advocating to run multiple of these? Even the most ardent vibe covers I know talk about babysitting the agents. How is this unlocking deep work time in any way shape or form?

… craft is relagated to hobbies? I guarantee you, this person loves Linear. It was probably written on a MacBook. This whole “we solve real problems” BS is just a cop out because being great is hard.

… mediocre code is good code? All code is a liability. If you generate 10 times the code, and are admitting it’s the lowest bar of quality possible, it is at a minimum 10x the liability on your shoulders.

… letting LLMs refactor your tests? Serious question, who actually does this? Because I would LOVE to have LLMs write tests for me. I have tried every. single. time. I need to write something that needs a lot of tests to ask LLMs for tests for TWO YEARS, and not once have I ever used a single test it generates. It generates worse tests than it does code, and the last thing I want is 42 asserts in 8 tests across 600 LoC that nobody understands that poorly tests what should have been 2 asserts in 2 tests in 12 lines of code.