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by airbreather 56 days ago
Humans don't really work any better, just fail in different ways. This is why certain workflows and practices have emerged.

We are now in the early days of working through a similar process with AI.

They most definately do work for some use cases, but how they are used is important.

Just because you apply human processes and systems to AI based workflows and don't get historically expected results, this is zero basis to claim the sky is falling with use of AI in coding.

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I didn't claim the sky is falling with the use of AI in coding.

I claimed

> basic security features like asking for user confirmation for bash commands, or restricting commands to the current directory

Do not currently reliably work. Not to the point that anyone concerned with security or reliability/not-having-their-env-fucked-up should trust these safeguards as standalones.