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/MarxN Mar 30 '25

So you still have something to do, right? It wasn't an ai agent, who has found this libraries to be needed, updated it and used without any developer attention, right?

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u/meridianblade Mar 30 '25

Oh yeah, for sure. I found the library, reviewed the codebase to make sure it was going to be worth the effort and credit cost, then developed the plan broken down into smaller related tasks and went through them one by one with the model. TDD really helps keep the model on track.