I really enjoy programming with AI agents. This is the closest I’ve ever come to having magical superpowers. Today’s AI is already smart, capable, resourceful and agentic enough to bring me joy.

This post is about the flip side of that: for most people I know, this fun turns into a death march. We have these powerful tools, but we feel more exhausted and overworked than ever. We ship more, but enjoy it less.

Source: https://frantic.im/bottleneck/

Sure thing you got disappointed - you chose not to train your mind, your confidence, your attitude… to stay self-sufficient and actually treasure achievements to be proud of. No. You chose to outsource, to depend, and to atrophy yourself and your history, where no names exist but tokens.

Congratulations. You damaged your own history.

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do you verify it didn’t break something else or introduce security or stability issues?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    Trial and error. So far, the only issues I've encountered are small oversights, not critical errors.

    I did try working with codex (I think I used ChatGPT back then?) some 16 months ago, and half of the things I wanted to do ended up in a mess. Astra is the first one that seems to be actually somewhat usable (edit: but it's also like 10-20x more expensive, I run into limits under 20€ subscription quite fast)

    On related note - It makes me uncomfortable to admit this, but the progress blows my mind away and it makes me uncomfortable, by now I truly believe it's there to stay and will make so many jobs obsolete. I was part of the AI hating club 1 month ago, and cognitive dissonance is real

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    You can read the code that it changed for starters. A lot of AI hate comes from not actually reviewing their work.

    2nd if it was a config issue. LLMs are fantastic at parsing an error log and tracking it back to a config issue. If it actually had to write code then it depends on if you actually read what it did.

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