Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand
by agentultra on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:02AM
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Yes! I was trying to make this part of my point but you definitely made it much more clear and concise.
With a skilled operator, it could be possible to drive an agent to handle these kinds of changes. I would be concerned that spoken language wouldn't be precise enough to handle the refactoring and changes necessary to make to a code base when an invariant changes... regardless of whether it was a property, architectural, or procedural change. It already can take several prompts and burn quite a few tokens doing large-scale rewrites and code changes. Maybe the parameters and weights can be tuned for this kind of work but I remain skeptical that what we have at present is "efficient" at this kind of work.
With a skilled operator, it could be possible to drive an agent to handle these kinds of changes. I would be concerned that spoken language wouldn't be precise enough to handle the refactoring and changes necessary to make to a code base when an invariant changes... regardless of whether it was a property, architectural, or procedural change. It already can take several prompts and burn quite a few tokens doing large-scale rewrites and code changes. Maybe the parameters and weights can be tuned for this kind of work but I remain skeptical that what we have at present is "efficient" at this kind of work.