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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

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170 points mogambo1 | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.33s | source
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liszper ◴[18 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45289744[source]▶
most SWE folks still have no idea how big the difference is between the coding agents they tried a year ago and declared as useless and chatgpt 5 paired with Codex or Cursor today

thanks for the article, it's a good one

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1. TheRoque ◴[18 Sep 25 14:07 UTC] No.45289898[source]▶
It's true that I haven't been a hardcore agent-army vibe coder, I just try the popular ones once in a while in a naive way (isn't it the point of these tools, to have little friction ?), claude code for example. And it's cool ! But imperfect, and as this article attests, there's a lot of mental overhead to even have a shot at getting a decent output. And even if it's decent, it still needs to be reviewed and could include logical flaws.

I'd rather use it the other way, I'm the one in charge, and the AI reviews any logical flaw or things that I would have missed. I don't even have to think about context window since it'll only look at my new code logic.

So yeah, 3 years after the first ChatGPT and Copilot, I don't feel huge changes regarding "automated" AI programming, and I don't have any AI tool in my IDE, I pefer to have a chat using their website, to brainstorm, or occasionally find a solution to something I'm stuck on.