I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe - my company has fully adopted agentic coding, we're working with:
- large codebases
- business critical software for clients that don't tolerate downtime
- agentic and classical features
We still collaborate well, we still care about quality, we still have good knowledge of the codebase, but I haven't written a single line of code myself in over a year.
We have not had a single incident that I'm aware of where we shipped a slop and it created downtime.
We're building a "software factory" that is currently handling low-level chore tickets and merging about 1/3rd of our PRs. A year from now I imagine it will be doing significantly more, and I don't think anyone is going to get fired because of it (if anything we'll keep hiring more).
I don't see this as an either/or thing. If there is some hidden ocean of slop that we're bound to fall into I don't see it anywhere. Where is the disparity?
Hey, author here. You should definitely share your experience!! We really need to study more success stories so we could figure out what makes them successful.
If it's possible I would highly encourage your company to publish something about how you work and what you think you're doing right.
headcanon · · focus · HN ↗
- large codebases
- business critical software for clients that don't tolerate downtime
- agentic and classical features
We still collaborate well, we still care about quality, we still have good knowledge of the codebase, but I haven't written a single line of code myself in over a year.
We have not had a single incident that I'm aware of where we shipped a slop and it created downtime.
We're building a "software factory" that is currently handling low-level chore tickets and merging about 1/3rd of our PRs. A year from now I imagine it will be doing significantly more, and I don't think anyone is going to get fired because of it (if anything we'll keep hiring more).
I don't see this as an either/or thing. If there is some hidden ocean of slop that we're bound to fall into I don't see it anywhere. Where is the disparity?
distantprovince · · focus · HN ↗
If it's possible I would highly encourage your company to publish something about how you work and what you think you're doing right.