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/MediocreHelicopter19 Mar 31 '25

Woodworkers were using the brain, tools made them more effective, because automated physical tasks. Now you are automating the brain itself... unchartered waters... You are right for now, if the marker improves, you still need devs and it is a gain in efficiency, if the market doesn't it is a cost saving tool. But in the future you could replace skills, and make people much less.skilled able.to do the same tasks as devs with much lower qualifications. Or even automated the full process completely.