#developerexperience

"If you're fearful of LLMs producing slop, or building a system that nobody understands, these are the techniques that the best software engineering teams have used for decades to mitigate that risk with humans."

"Review is now about half of a developer's job, but many teams still treat it as the final step in the process rather than the primary constraint on delivery"

"Free generation doesn't weaken YAGNI. It makes the violation cheaper to commit, which is worse."

"If Mythos taught us anything, it's that LLM agents are really good at finding bugs. Throw them at a codebase enough times, and they will find so many bugs that you'll barely know what to do with them."

"When you stop using the agent, all the productivity benefit goes away... but the added maintenance costs don't! As long as that code's still around, you're stuck with lower productivity than if you had never touched the agent at all."

"It's like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they'd all stopped showing pictures of the tables they'd created and just started posting about the hammer they were using."

"There is no way we win this fight with manual code reviews."

"Speed is dangerous without brakes. Make risk a blocking function. If the risk is unknown or unmitigated, the line stops. Do not hide danger in a report; encode it as a gate."