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by yanis_t 3 hours ago
I keep thinking about at which point I should not force myself into the loop. As a developer I really like working on the code structure, making it clearer, thinking about good abstraction, breaking into modules, etc. I really take pleasure in it. At the same time I understand that at some point I am becoming the limiting factor.

If the point of the software is benefit people, should I still care about how the code looks.

Right now, I still think that the answer is yes, but in 3 years? in 10 years?

1 comments

You will always be able to ask the agent to do refactors for you - and it can do mega ones that exhaust you to think about!
Two problems: I will not get my pleasure, and I will still not know how the code works.
Agentic refactoring is very questionable if you want to maintain quality, as it will rewrite all your code to be more average.