Comment by kmatthews812

Beware the two extremes - AI out of the box with no additional config, or writing code entirely by hand.

In order to get high accuracy PRs with AI (small, tested commits that follow existing patterns efficiently), you need to spend time adding agents (claude.md, agents.md), skills, hooks, and tools specific to your setup.

This is why so much development is happening at the plugin layer right now, especially with Claude code.

The juice is worth the squeeze. Once accuracy gets high enough you don't need to edit and babysit what is generated, you can horizontally scale your output.