Comment by mastazi

> Around the 40-commit mark, manual commits became frequent—styling, removing unused methods, the kind of housekeeping that coding models still struggle with. It's clear that AI generated >95% of the code, but human oversight was essential throughout.

But things like styling and unused code removal have been automated for a long time already, thanks to non-AI tools; assuming that the AI agent has access to those tools (e.g. assuming the agent can trigger a linter), then the engineer could have just included these steps in the prompts instead of running them manually.

EDIT - I still think there are aspects where AI is obviously lacking, I just think those specific examples are not among them