I like Lisp, I was not generally disregarding REPLs. But
> programmer/agent stops guessing
I think programmers and agents are fundamentally different, and require different approaches. I don't see the benefits to an agent avoiding recompilation when they may take 30+ minutes on a couple prompts. I don't think compilation time even accounts for 1% of what my agents do, but I could be wrong (again, I'm not working on something massive).
I also don't think I want them to assume they solved something because the current image is working as intended. I don't really trust them to know if they have a working solution, or if they have built up a very specific state that works, but can't get the same solution from scratch.
Also I feel more comfortable doing localized tests through the REPL than letting an agent do it. I would need some kind of test suite or harness to check a bigger trail of behavior than let it assume a problem was fixed. But I doubt this will be a problem for long
> programmer/agent stops guessing
I think programmers and agents are fundamentally different, and require different approaches. I don't see the benefits to an agent avoiding recompilation when they may take 30+ minutes on a couple prompts. I don't think compilation time even accounts for 1% of what my agents do, but I could be wrong (again, I'm not working on something massive).
I also don't think I want them to assume they solved something because the current image is working as intended. I don't really trust them to know if they have a working solution, or if they have built up a very specific state that works, but can't get the same solution from scratch.
Also I feel more comfortable doing localized tests through the REPL than letting an agent do it. I would need some kind of test suite or harness to check a bigger trail of behavior than let it assume a problem was fixed. But I doubt this will be a problem for long