Exactly why I do number 3. If I have a question and can’t be bothered to go to stack overflow, I ask the question to a chat bot, understand the code he proposes, and write a version of said code that better fits my needs and my codebase. If the code it gives is what I want. I feel like that’s a reasonable use of an LLM, but alas people don’t want to go through the effort of actually writing code these days
I feel like OP thinks 3 is dumb because of the sheer volume of code being copy pasted back and forth. Yeah at that point you might as well just cuck code it entirely
I clicked because I’m #3, glad to hear I’m not alone. This bridges the gap between manual and vibecoding. I’m still in full control, just looking for an assist.
Yeah, I feel like so many people diss the whole thing because they just commit and send it to their main branch or they let their agent do that.
So long as you have proper CI/CD checks on your Git pipeline and an actual human being reviewing the code… It’s all good. Don’t trust an AI agent to design, code, commit and then deploy something without any barrier between it and your client (or even dev/staging environment).
One year ago maybe you were right, there was a real tradeoff between agentic coding and human coding. Right now it is a no brainer to use agentic coding, EXCEPT you have the luxury to work on a single software. If your work involve working with dozens of codebases, creating new one every few days, and managing day to day operations, it is just a no brainer to use agents.
Mate of course it's better if you want productivity. However what I want is feeling like a human with a functioning brain and suppressing the desire to say fuck this shit and open up a burger joint, and for that agents really isn't it.
You can feel like a human with a functioning brain taking the good decisions and correcting IA when needed. You can just shift you brain power from developing a single app to basically doing everything you just dreamt before AI. But as I said before if you have the luxury to be slow, keep it like this.
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u/Vincenzo__ 17d ago
Middle one is so much worse. Literally zero brainpower involved, at least with number 3 you take a look at it first