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(I think it may help that latest 10 years of my career a big part of my job was reviewing other …

… (I think it may help that latest 10 years of my career a big part of my job was reviewing other people's code, delegating tasks, being the one who knew the code base best and helping others into it. So that means I'm used to delegating not just coding. Recently I switched jobs and am now coding alone with AI.)

Original discussionAsk HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?455 source comments · at import
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terabytestHN

I've been trying to get agentic coding to work, but the dissonance between what I'm seeing online and what I'm able to achieve is doing my head in. Is there real evidence, beyond hype, that agentic coding produces net-positive results? If any of you have actually got it to work, could you share (in detail) how you did it? By "getting it to work" I mean: * creating more value than technical debt, and * producing code that’s structurally sound enough for someone responsible for the architecture to sign off on. Lately I’ve seen a push toward minimal or nonexistent code review, with the claim that we should move from “validating architecture” to “validating behavior.” In practice, this seems to mean: don’t look at the code; if tests and CI pass, ship it. I can’t see how this holds up long-term. My expectation is that you end up with "spaghetti" code that works on the happy path but accumul…

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keyboredHN

I was expecting that evidence part that OP asked for in the top comments. Not the usual ramble ramble.

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trashbHN

I see your point in that you can use advanced terms with the LLM which makes it more like peer programming with a senior instead of a junior. > "but how long is it really going to take, because you always finish a lot quicker than you say, you say two weeks and then it takes two days" However these statement just kinda makes your comment smell of r/thatHappend. Since it is such a tremendous speed up. Therefore I am intrigued what kind of problems you working on? Does it require a lot of boilerplate code or a lot of manually adjusting settings?

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This is much closer to my experience. If you aren't seeing 8-10x speed ups like this, I'm sorry but you probably just aren't cut out for software development. You may have been skilled enough for the industry before, but you can't cut it in the LLM era.

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