> After just a few weeks of not coding and handing everything to agents you’ll notice that you have a hard time returning to coding yourself.
The trend is in the opposite direction though, keeping your capability for hand coding is not going to help as much as you imply. How many people know how to ride a horse today, or routinely multiply large numbers by hand.
The skill we need today is to compensate for coding agent blindspots and limitations, know their problems, have ways to approach those problems and still get code you can trust to be reliable and aligned with your intent.
> keeping your capability for hand coding is not going to help as much as you imply
> The skill we need today is to compensate for coding agent blindspots and limitations, know their problems, have ways to approach those problems and still get code you can trust to be reliable and aligned with your intent.
So you’re saying that you can stop being able to understand code, but you need to be able to coerce a weird flawed black box into writing good code, without understanding how good code (and good decisions about code) should look like.
visarga · · focus · HN ↗
The trend is in the opposite direction though, keeping your capability for hand coding is not going to help as much as you imply. How many people know how to ride a horse today, or routinely multiply large numbers by hand.
The skill we need today is to compensate for coding agent blindspots and limitations, know their problems, have ways to approach those problems and still get code you can trust to be reliable and aligned with your intent.
Toutouxc · · focus · HN ↗
> The skill we need today is to compensate for coding agent blindspots and limitations, know their problems, have ways to approach those problems and still get code you can trust to be reliable and aligned with your intent.
So you’re saying that you can stop being able to understand code, but you need to be able to coerce a weird flawed black box into writing good code, without understanding how good code (and good decisions about code) should look like.
That seems contradictory.