roadmap definition, sprint planning, unit tests, regular independent code reviews, etc. etc. etc. that those of us who “knew what we were doing” mostly looked down on as the waste of time that it was
Not really, for humans a lot of this stuff feels like busywork that sorta helps for certain scales of work, but often times managers went WAY too hard on it and you end up with a 2 dev team that spends like 60% of their time in meetings instead of… developing.
But this changes a lot with AI Agents, because these tools that help reign in developers REALLY help reign in agents, it feels… like a surprising good fit
And I think the big reason why is you wanna treat AI Agents as junior devs, capable, fast, but very prone to errors and getting sidetracked
So you put these sorts of steering and guard rails in and it REALLY goes far towards channelling their… enthusiasm in a meaningful direction.
What the fuck are you talking about, thats not what the poster said, you’ve done weird contorting of what they said to arrive at the question you are asking now.
While some tests make sense, I would say about 99% of tests that I see developers write are indeed a waste of time, a shit tonne of devs effectively are writing code that boils down to
Assert.That(2, Is.EqualTo(1+1));
Because they mock the shit out of everything and have reduced their code to meaningless piles of fakes and mocks and arent actually testing what matters.
Do you do code reviews in meetings?
Honestly often… yes lol
Do you think testing and reviewing code was a waste of time before “AI”?
I would say a lot of it is, tbh, not all of it, but a huge amount of time is wasted on this process by humans for humans.
What the poster was getting at is a lot of these processes that USED to be INEFFICIENT now make MORE sense in the context of agents… you have vastly taken their point out of context.
You sound insane.
Not really, for humans a lot of this stuff feels like busywork that sorta helps for certain scales of work, but often times managers went WAY too hard on it and you end up with a 2 dev team that spends like 60% of their time in meetings instead of… developing.
But this changes a lot with AI Agents, because these tools that help reign in developers REALLY help reign in agents, it feels… like a surprising good fit
And I think the big reason why is you wanna treat AI Agents as junior devs, capable, fast, but very prone to errors and getting sidetracked
So you put these sorts of steering and guard rails in and it REALLY goes far towards channelling their… enthusiasm in a meaningful direction.
Do you write your tests in meetings? Do you do code reviews in meetings?
Do you think testing and reviewing code was a waste of time before “AI”?
What the fuck are you talking about, thats not what the poster said, you’ve done weird contorting of what they said to arrive at the question you are asking now.
While some tests make sense, I would say about 99% of tests that I see developers write are indeed a waste of time, a shit tonne of devs effectively are writing code that boils down to
Assert.That(2, Is.EqualTo(1+1));Because they mock the shit out of everything and have reduced their code to meaningless piles of fakes and mocks and arent actually testing what matters.
Honestly often… yes lol
I would say a lot of it is, tbh, not all of it, but a huge amount of time is wasted on this process by humans for humans.
What the poster was getting at is a lot of these processes that USED to be INEFFICIENT now make MORE sense in the context of agents… you have vastly taken their point out of context.
Insane, yet reliably employed in the field for 30+ years - first and current job for more than a decade.