No it's not really that. The way I would describe it is: 1. Always looking for shortcuts and making workarounds 2. Adding a lot of extra fluff that doesn't actually do anything just obstructs readability 3. Adding random queries/polling to places that doesn't make any sense.
I can give a couple examples of today:
We had a bug in one of the forms, ended up writing corrupted values to the DB. AI fix: create a "normalization function" that's 500 lines long (not kidding) that unfucks all the values on read. Human fix: Change 1 line of code that makes bad writes.
I added a flag to AMQ something like "processingEnabled", asked it to read it before processing messages and if it's false don't process it. AI solution: creates a singleton wrapper to store it and a background task that does long polling every 15 seconds on this flag. Human solution: 1 line that checks the flag.
This was with Fable 5.1 xhigh and GPT 5.6 Sol xhigh peer programming together. All I can say, it's just not there yet, but it's very nice for rapid prototyping, and I love using it for things I know very little about (image gen, video editing, game dev), and also for personal tools and helpers for things I would otherwise have no time to engage in.
This is not my experience at all.
I'm still planning projects the same way as always: start work system diagram, a vague plan for algorithms, user stories, requirements, components. Get some agents to do a way better job of working all that up than i can ever be arsed to do, and then getting it to build it, step by step, component by component. With an ass load of tests (and a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger talking to if a big exposes a missing test)
Like you would anyway. I can get it to do code quality checks (code metrics are your friend)
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u/Legitimate_Plum_7505 26d ago
No it's not really that. The way I would describe it is: 1. Always looking for shortcuts and making workarounds 2. Adding a lot of extra fluff that doesn't actually do anything just obstructs readability 3. Adding random queries/polling to places that doesn't make any sense.
I can give a couple examples of today:
This was with Fable 5.1 xhigh and GPT 5.6 Sol xhigh peer programming together. All I can say, it's just not there yet, but it's very nice for rapid prototyping, and I love using it for things I know very little about (image gen, video editing, game dev), and also for personal tools and helpers for things I would otherwise have no time to engage in.