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GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

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358 points andrewstetsenko | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jasonthorsness ◴[23 Jun 25 21:23 UTC] No.44360282[source]▶
"He warned that depending solely on automated agents could lead to inefficiencies. For instance, spending too much time explaining simple changes in natural language instead of editing the code directly."

Lots of changes where describing them in English takes longer than just performing the change. I think the most effective workflow with AI agents will be a sort of active back-and-forth.

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1. neom ◴[23 Jun 25 21:49 UTC] No.44360520[source]▶
How active are you ok with/want? I've just joined an agent tooling startup (yesh...I wrote that huh...) - and it's something we talk a lot about internally, we're thinking it's fine to do back and forth, tell it frankly it's not doing it right, etc, but some stuff might be annoying? Do you have a sense of how this might work to your mind? Thanks! :)