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by gcanyon 2 hours ago
I'm a software developer from way back, using tools and languages that coding agents are far less familiar with.

So when I use an agent to write code, it's in languages I'm less familiar with, and often using libraries I know nothing about.

All to say, my part of the process often ends up being:

1. "Here's what I'm looking for, in detail" 2. "That's not right. Here's one way it's not right, and a specific example. Please fix that." 3. Sometimes I give suggestions for how what is going wrong might be happening, or conceptually how to work around the issue. 4. And iterate on 2-3 until the result is close enough.

That's a loop I'd love to automate.