Right? This one really hurts to see. I remember just a year ago we all used agents to help us code, but the end result of a session was still a human-made piece that other humans looked at and that we discussed about together.
And because we were talking to colleagues we wanted to make sure that we don’t waste their time. So we kept PR descriptions precise and understandable, we created small reviewable PRs and we wrote review comments that didn’t span half of your page.
Everything felt like it had value to someone.
But I agree with the current pace push it’s nearly impossible to do it any different. And honestly I don’t understand the rush. At least at our company I can’t discern any speed-up yet. Yes, more lines of code are written but features still take very long. It often just moves the work to a different stage in the process.
I am writing too much but I can’t stop thinking about all of this day and night. Sometimes even questioning whether the standards I want to live up to are maybe set too high for this day and age…
And because we were talking to colleagues we wanted to make sure that we don’t waste their time. So we kept PR descriptions precise and understandable, we created small reviewable PRs and we wrote review comments that didn’t span half of your page.
Everything felt like it had value to someone.
But I agree with the current pace push it’s nearly impossible to do it any different. And honestly I don’t understand the rush. At least at our company I can’t discern any speed-up yet. Yes, more lines of code are written but features still take very long. It often just moves the work to a different stage in the process.
I am writing too much but I can’t stop thinking about all of this day and night. Sometimes even questioning whether the standards I want to live up to are maybe set too high for this day and age…