I came across this PR with many different systems kicking off AI reviews, comments, and changes. You can also see human devs chiming in. This is the future of how people will work, with more and more of the tasks handled by various AI. Fascinating.
It seemed to me the author was simply sharing his own lived experience, which happens to be a bit contrarian to the popular hype around LLMs. It may seem courageous for some but I can see a world where the author didn't think twice about writing down his thoughts in 15 minutes and publishing on his own personal site. Perhaps it comes naturally to people who have been around this industry longer
everybody loves building agents, nobody likes debugging them. agents hit the classic llm app lifecycle problem: at first it feels magical. it nails the first few tasks, doing things you didn’t even think were possible. you get excited, start pushing it further. you run it and then it fails on step 17, then 41, then step 9.
now you can’t reproduce it because it’s probabilistic. each step takes half a second, so you sit there for 10–20 minutes just waiting for a chance to see what went wrong