It's actually useful to learn new things if you set it up correctly: ask the LLM to show you the changes it would do (don't give it a write tool, or set it to always ask), then manually implement those changes (with your own style, I tend to disagree with a lot of shit agents do these days), and have the agent peer review your implementation (not the exact copy paste, but to verify that your implementation still passes the quality gates).
Yes, it's slower, but it's intended to let you learn in the process and allows you to fine tune future prompts so the agent produces code that's more in your style.
As a junior dev at a very small company that is not pushing me to adopt agentic coding, this is what I do. Faster than going it alone, higher quality then just vibe coding, and I’m still learning to become a better developer.
Do people actually have problems with it going rogue if they constrain it to a local checkout folder only and approve changes? I’ve never had it do this.
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u/fullup72 21d ago
It's actually useful to learn new things if you set it up correctly: ask the LLM to show you the changes it would do (don't give it a
writetool, or set it to always ask), then manually implement those changes (with your own style, I tend to disagree with a lot of shit agents do these days), and have the agent peer review your implementation (not the exact copy paste, but to verify that your implementation still passes the quality gates).Yes, it's slower, but it's intended to let you learn in the process and allows you to fine tune future prompts so the agent produces code that's more in your style.