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I don’t see how I would feel comfortable pushing the current output of LLMs into high-stakes production (think SLAs, SRE).

Understanding of the code in these situation is more important than the code/feature existing.

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You can use an agent while still understanding the code it generates in detail. In high stakes areas, I go through it line by line and symbol by symbol. And I rarely accept the first attempt. It’s not very different from continually refining your own code until it meets the bar for robustness.

Agents make mistakes which need to be corrected, but they also point out edge cases you haven’t thought of.

Definitely agreed, that is what I do as well. At that point you have good understanding of that code, which is in contrast to what the post I responded suggests.

I agree and am the same. Using them to enhance my knowledge and as well as autocomplete on steroids is the sweet spot. Much easier to review code if im “writing” it line by line.

I think the reality is a lot of code out there doesn’t need to be good, so many people benefit from agents etc.

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