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by stillsut 318 days ago
I think the Github-PR model for agent code suggestions is the path of least resistance for getting adoption from today's developers working in an existing codebase. It makes sense: these developers are already used to the idea and the ergonomics of doing code reviews this way.

But pushing this existing process - which was designed for limited participation of scarce people - onto a use-case of managing a potentially huge reservoir of agent suggestions is going to get brittle quickly. Basically more suggestions require a more streamlined and scriptable review workflow.

Which is why I think working in the command line with your agents - similar to Claude and Aider - is going to be where human maintainers can most leverage the deep scalability of async and parallel agents.

> is way better than having to set up git worktrees or any other type of sandbox yourself

I've built up a helper library that does this for you for either aider or claude here: https://github.com/sutt/agro. And for FOSS purposes, I want to prevent MS, OpenAI, etc from controlling the means of production for software where you need to use their infra for sandboxing your dev environment.

And I've been writing about how to use CLI tricks to review the outputs on some case studies as well: https://github.com/sutt/agro/blob/master/docs/case-studies/i...