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by swatcoder 814 days ago
> My debugging time costs many orders of magnitude more than SWE-agent

Unless your job is primarily to clean up somebody else's mess, your debugging time is a key part of a career-long feedback loop that improves your craft. Be careful not to shrug it off as something less. Many many people are spending a lot of money to let you forget it, and once you do, you'll be right there in the ranks of the cheaply replaceble.

(And on the odd chance that cleaning up other people's mess is your job, you should probably be the one doing it; and for largely the same reasons)

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I totally agree. My solution to this was limiting my AI use to (a) whatever didn't impair creativity and (b) just in general to keep the brain sharp. If using AI regularly, one could just manually solve a percentage of the problems.