All coding agents are geared towards optimizing one metric, more or less, getting people to put out more tokens — or $$$.
If these agents moved towards a policy where $$$ were charged for project completion + lower ongoing code maintenance cost, moving large projects forward, _somewhat_ similar to how IT consultants charge, this would be a much better world.
Right now we have chaos monkey called AI and the poor human is doing all the cleanup. Not to mention an effing manager telling me you now "have" AI push 50 Features instead of 5 in this cycle.
If these agents moved towards a policy where $$$ were charged for project completion + lower ongoing code maintenance cost, moving large projects forward, _somewhat_ similar to how IT consultants charge, this would be a much better world.
Right now we have chaos monkey called AI and the poor human is doing all the cleanup. Not to mention an effing manager telling me you now "have" AI push 50 Features instead of 5 in this cycle.