[stingraycharles]

I find that that doesn’t work in the long run. Software agents are not yet capable of maintaining a decently active repository for extended periods of time.

I am all for delegating everything to AI agents, but it just becomes a mess over time if you don’t steer things often enough.

[vidarh]

Not my experience at all. If anything, they make it cheap enough to deal with tech debt that it is far easier to justify being strict.

EDIT: I'll add that you can't expect it to guess what you want, but you can let it manage how it delivers it. We don't expect e.g. a product manager to dictate how developers deliver the code, just what the acceptance criteria is, and that's where I'm headed.