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We put a coding agent in a while loop

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425 points sfarshid | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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rogerrogerr ◴[24 Aug 25 18:12 UTC] No.45006357[source]▶
Does anyone else get dull feelings of dread reading this kind of thing? How do you combat it?
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1. refactor_master ◴[25 Aug 25 05:30 UTC] No.45010531[source]▶
My company’s use of code is a means to an end, not the goal. If we could just have all our code written in bash loops that’d be a brilliant time saver. Unfortunately, some of the code is very gnarly business-y, poorly tested, and may even have wrong assumptions about the business.

Additionally, we have multiple languages, both software and hardware products and finally there’s also the question of external stakeholders, of which there are many. So AI would need a tremendous amount of oversight for that to work.