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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

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  1. chanux · · focus · HN ↗
    > Agents weaken the social fabric of engineering teams by reducing interpersonal communication, increasing self-reliance, and hindering skill expression.

    I have a feeling that this is true and it's a bit sad.

    1. CobrastanJorji · · focus · HN ↗
      What's been driving me nuts recently is when coworkers send me clearly AI-generated blocks of text in otherwise-human conversations. Like I'll ask in a chat window "hey, Jim, what's the difference between these two deployment pipelines," and I'll get back a block of text with markdown and headings in the style of our team's AI, and I get this sad feeling where I thought I was going to be having a conversation with a colleague, but instead my colleague was just playing as a chinese room.
      1. mathisfun123 · · focus · HN ↗
        Doesn't this indicate your "colleague" was a dbag to begin with and they were only paying lip service (literally) to being colleagues?
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