> You don't direct the action of an LLM - you make requests and it acts on its own, without your energy or continuous direction. This request/automation cycle is not wielding, it's not control, it's not continuous, it's without feedback.
There are certainly many ways of using coding agents, but the way he describes it is not my approach. There's a huge amount of direction and feedback.
I don't know if I'd call it a tool so much as a modality of building software. Within the modality, you have everything from truly unsupervised YOLO coding to something far more structured. To an extent, it's similar to how you go about setting up standard operating procedures to get teams of humans to do work at scale.
There are certainly many ways of using coding agents, but the way he describes it is not my approach. There's a huge amount of direction and feedback.
I don't know if I'd call it a tool so much as a modality of building software. Within the modality, you have everything from truly unsupervised YOLO coding to something far more structured. To an extent, it's similar to how you go about setting up standard operating procedures to get teams of humans to do work at scale.