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David Cramer@zeeg
Sentry's David Cramer on agent-written software: junk building on junk compounds reliability problems, so the complexity battle matters more.
I'm seeing a progression of agents writing software that I have mixed feelings about. I have been fighting the complexity battle - the sloppy code that for us is really hard to maintain. Junk building on junk, that ultimate compounds the reliability challenges you'll face in
lauren@poteto
Delete most code comments: agents copy what exists, so one stale workaround comment spreads through the codebase like a weed.
ban and delete most if not all code comments! agents love copying what already exists. a seemingly harmless comment explaining some temporary workaround is one of the worst viruses you can have in your codebase. like a weed it'll spread quickly as a tool for agents to quickly
lauren@poteto
Slop isn't something that happens to you. Engineers can shape the environment so agents produce good code.
something that keeps bothering me is how some people see slop as something that is happening to them, like they're some kind of helpless bystander powerless to do anything about it excuse me but you are a software engineer, you literally learned how to make sand think and make https://t.co/zrcp7PwFWl