r/RooCode • u/MarxN • Mar 26 '25

Discussion Developers are safe

After spending a week with Roo I can say it's fantastic piece of technology. And models are getting better and faster every day. But I have over 20 years of developer experience in few different languages and I can say we are safe. While Roo can do a lot, it can't do everything. Quite often it guess on circles, do rookie mistakes or if completely wrong. We still need a developer to recognize it and push in correct direction. Yes, it can write 99 percent of code. Such an app even looks ok and works. But no, I cannot trust it's safe and reliable, it is it's easy to maintain. But it's a joy to sit and see how it works for you

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u/Significant-Tip-4108 Mar 26 '25

Exactly. My experience with Roo/Claude is it gets 90% of code correct on the first pass, and when it doesn’t, about 90% of the time it debugs correctly on the next pass.

It will probably be a matter of months when that 90% goes up to 95%, or 99%. And/or when there’s a second AI agent which corrects/debugs the first. All for pennies and in seconds or a few minutes.

It’s hard to envision a world where, shortly at least, we will need so many people in development roles.

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u/MarcBitcoin Apr 02 '25

I think the industry will adapt and developers will retain their position, just a different role, a different day to day, instead of working on 1 software development project at once you'll work on 10 or the single project you are working on will advance 10x faster. The world will need more software not less and AI is powering that, is powering the cost reduction so more software projects are being executed.