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Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev by strange_quark on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:56PM (#46838912)
I’d take it even further: I want to see the prompts! I’ll concede we’ve arrived at a point where the coding agents work, but I’m still unconvinced they’re actually saving anyone time. From my AI-pilled coworkers, it appears they’re all spending half an hour creating a plan with hyper-specific prompts, like “make this specific change to lines XXX-YYY in this file”, “move this function over here and change the args”, etc. As far as I can tell, this is current best practice, and I’ve tried it, but I’m always disappointed with the either the quality or the speed, usually both.
Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev by dullcrisp on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:41PM (#46839378)
Look learning vim is hard some people just want to describe their edits using natural language.
Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev by tempodox on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:54PM (#46839542)
Yea, if I were interested in that level of micromanagement, I would have become a manager.