[valentinconan]

In my opinion, AI agents are currently just as capable as novice developers. Their main advantage is that they’re much faster than we are when the task involves generating a lot of code.

If the task is simple, I spend more time telling it what to do than doing it myself. But if the task is complex, I use certain skills/commands and create intermediate files (more than necessary) between each step (analysis, planning, design, workflow, and implementation) and clear the context between each of them. The result is fairly accurate, but not perfect.

My take is, we remain the architects of our code, and AI agents are an excellent tool that we need to master.

[par1970]

If your project requires the solution of a tricky algorithmic issue, then is the AI system able to solve that part, or do you have to give it the solution?

[valentinconan]

I haven't yet tried to solve truly complex algorithmic problems.

Generally speaking, if the problem is common, the model has likely already been trained to solve it.

If it's truly complex and/or specific to my needs, I can try using a reasoning model to think through a solution before moving on to implementation.

I use the agent to conduct research, find resources to understand the complexity, best practices, feedback, etc., and to write a Markdown analysis file on the topic.

Then I can use this file as a basis to precisely define what I want to do and brainstorm with the agent in thinking mode. The more the task is described and defined, the more accurate the result will be.