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It's not unmaintainable if you have 1000 agents maintain it.

It is unmaintainable even if you spend 100k per month on tokens to have LLMs pretend they are maintaining it, if they slow down and make little ACTUAL progress. Sadly real progress is impossible to measure, if all you have is an overexcited """engineer""", a credit card, and so much cash spent you could hire all the best engineers you know and still have money for a porsche.

Well, software presumably has a goal of accomplishing something for some end-user, so the progress should be trivial to measure: are features/changes being completed?

The marketing ploys of OpenAI/Anthropic where agents build something that nobody uses might be hard to track given that there are zero users. But what about everyone using agents for real software? It's trivial to prove that agents make progress.

Yes that is the entire point. Measure features deployed in production and their value in gaining and retaining customers or users, cost reductions, reduced incidents and outages, etc.

Lines of code is completely irrelevant as a metric.

It's not unmaintainable if most of it is tests. Just have it write tests until it becomes safe for AI.

I hate I can't tell if you're joking without checking posting history lol

…and then the CEO sees the token bill…

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