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This only works if the software is still crafted by a human and merely using AI as a tool. In that case the use of AI is similar to using editor macros or test-driven development. I don't need to see that process playing out in real time.

It's less clear to me if the software isn't crafted by a human at all, though. In that case I would prefer to see the prompt.

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I agree that fully agentic development will change things, but I don't know how. I'm still very much in the human-in-the-loop phase of AI where I want to understand and verify that it's not done anything silly. I care far more about the code that I'm deploying than the prompt that got me there and probably will for a long time. So will my prodsec team.

Appreciate this very sane take. The actual code always is more important than the intentions, and this is basically tautological.

When dealing with a particularly subtle / nuanced issue, knowing the intentions is still invaluable, but this is usually rare. How often AI code runs you into these issues is currently unclear, and constantly changing (and how often such issue are actually crucial depends heavily on the domain).

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