Comment by onion2k
10 hours ago
I agree that fully agentic development will change things, but I don't know how. I'm still very much in the human-in-the-loop phase of AI where I want to understand and verify that it's not done anything silly. I care far more about the code that I'm deploying than the prompt that got me there and probably will for a long time. So will my prodsec team.
Appreciate this very sane take. The actual code always is more important than the intentions, and this is basically tautological.
When dealing with a particularly subtle / nuanced issue, knowing the intentions is still invaluable, but this is usually rare. How often AI code runs you into these issues is currently unclear, and constantly changing (and how often such issue are actually crucial depends heavily on the domain).