I feel this post. I am tired of "directing" agents when in reality it feels more like trying to herd a group of toddlers.
Sure they can mostly write better code than a toddler but this constant nudging and reminding and reiterating and stopping them from using the token budget of the whole company for a one off script. It gets tiring and I feel like I am losing brain power while doing it. Maybe it's faster but explosive diarrhea is also a faster way to produce shit.
Maybe it’s a personal thing but I found that at some size it would be like having someone chuck a big foreign codebase in your lap and saying, “Ok, I did most of it, now you make it work.”
I kinda have to stay engaged the whole time the best I can.
What that boils down to is, “go ahead and yolo small things I can fully review” or “really wrangle it close through a larger effort” or “go full vibecode and prayer.”
BadBadJellyBean · · focus · HN ↗
Sure they can mostly write better code than a toddler but this constant nudging and reminding and reiterating and stopping them from using the token budget of the whole company for a one off script. It gets tiring and I feel like I am losing brain power while doing it. Maybe it's faster but explosive diarrhea is also a faster way to produce shit.
zahlman · · focus · HN ↗
dd8601fn · · focus · HN ↗
I kinda have to stay engaged the whole time the best I can.
What that boils down to is, “go ahead and yolo small things I can fully review” or “really wrangle it close through a larger effort” or “go full vibecode and prayer.”
BadBadJellyBean · · focus · HN ↗