Comment by zamalek

> Agents are fixing bugs so quickly and at a scale humans can't do already.

This is an illusion, I assure you. On a side project of mine with behavior that's very hard to translate into an algorithm (never mind code), after a few failed attempts between the both of us, I figured it out. I gave the AI (Opus) an extremely specific algorithm with detailed tests. All completely and utterly ignored (including the tests), like I never even said it. It proudly declared the work done without ever having written the tests that would have proved that wrong - it basically wrote code that didn't change behavior at all, it just gave the illusion of looking busy.

That's just a single extreme example that comes to mind, but I've had it ignore me at least 4-5 times a day this week.

If you think agents are fixing things reliably then you simply haven't noticed that they are "looking busy."