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Then you can treat code as implementation detail and not read it.
if AI agents now write 30,000 commits a day… who is reviewing them?
Even senior devs aren't going back to manual coding
Dude legit thinks a 2,000 person company should be merging under 30 PRs a day lmao
JJim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸XView on XMark my words. Anthropic’s codebase is going to start cracking. They have no fucking idea what it does anymore.
30,000 code changes per day is absurd by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude. They’re just churning tokens, hoping it magically becomes intelligent by itself. It’s pathetic.
Every review finds brand new bugs. Review again: more. Review a tenth time: it still finds something.
It never runs out of bugs to find... so how do you decide your code is actually done?
In other news, a software engineer with 18 years of experience (me) just spent 15 hours refining a big new feature, asking questions that the frontier models hadn't even considered. Software engineering isn't going anywhere.
Have a feeling this will happen more widely.
I’m panicking.
BRUH
But that IS the thing with rapid change like now!!
If a company ignores how the industry changes, their business could suffer. JetBrains missed out on agentic harnesses:
HIgal TabachnikXView on XJetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains
Tech debt has been so central to the software craft for decades, and now... how much does it matter?
