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> which will get me 90% of the way there

This is roughly my experience as well. The AI is great at the first 90% of the work and actively counterproductive for the remaining 90%

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And wait until there is 500 million of generated loc no one read and the product needs to evolve every week.

I think it's for this and other reasons that this kind of tool is not great for beginners. I can personally vet all of those LoC to make sure they are organized in a way that makes sense as it grows (limited to my own skill, lets assume I'm a master) but obviously someone with low XP won't have that ability. Given what I've seen in this project, that will CERTAINLY happen. Even telling it to reorganize code, you have to be specific.

I agree with you. The problem is all those people saying that « soon » we won’t have to review any code and other agents will review, merge, deploy. As in a closed loop. The companies believing that will that great risks at offloading those skills without supervision…

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