• SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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    13 days ago

    Do people actually use agents for production code? I feel like it is one of those things that people don’t use but is sold to us that everyone uses. A lie to promote bullshit.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I have an engineer that uses it heavily.

      It adds so much extra and he’ll push thousands of lines of code into a PR every week. He had one bug and tried to refactor it, he bloated that single file by 16%.

      It’s almost impossible to review.

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        It adds so much extra and he’ll push thousands of lines of code into a PR every week.

        This is just a waste of the reviewer’s own time that could be better spent doing actual work. Is it at least split up into multiple commits, or is it one giant shitshow?

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      I sometimes do, but very sparsely, it’s hard to come across a task that’s good fit for an LLM unless you’re prototyping something, imo