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by sarchertech 98 days ago
If you have an employee who codes 2x faster than everyone else but produces 10x the bugs, would your suggestion to be to let him rip and stop reviewing his code output?

> I never suggested letting agents code for a day on end. I use AI to code well defined tasks and treat it like a mid level ticket taker

It doesn’t matter how long you’re letting it run. If you aren’t reviewing the output, you have no way of knowing when it changes untested behavior.

I regularly find Claude doing insane things that I never would have thought to test against, that would have made it into prod if I hadn’t renewed the code.
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raw_anon_1111 98 days ago
> It doesn’t matter how long you’re letting it run. If you aren’t reviewing the output, you have no way of knowing when it changes untested behavior.

You’re focused on the output , I’m focused on the behavior. Thats the difference. Just like when I delegate a task to either another developer or another company like the random Salesforce integration or even a third party API I need to integrate with.

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sarchertech 98 days ago
Unfortunately you are not equipped to observe and test all or even most of the behavior of a non-trivial system.

And if you attempt to treat every module in your system like it’s untrusted 3rd party code you’ll run into severe complexity and size limits. No one codes large systems like that because it’s not possible. There are always escape hatches and entanglements.

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raw_anon_1111 98 days ago
Actual a little company you might have heard of called Amazon does…

Jeff Bezos mandated it in 2002.

https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/api-mandate

AWS S3 by itself is made up of 200+ micro services

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sarchertech 97 days ago
Except that they don’t. The API mandate gets violated all the time. And no one at Amazon actually treats every other team as a 3rd party.
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raw_anon_1111 97 days ago
Have you worked at Amazon?

I am not saying they treat every other team as a third party. I am saying they treat the code itself as a black box with well defined interfaces. They aren’t reaching in to another services data store to retrieve information.

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sarchertech 97 days ago
How do you know someone is ex-Amazon ? Don’t worry they’ll tell you.

I haven’t mentioned it 5 times already so you can be pretty sure I haven’t. I know too many people that have worked there to ever make that mistake.

But more importantly, have you worked there in the last decade?

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