People who say that managing coding agents is the same as being an engineering manager are self-reporting.
1) Either they never worked with good programmers
2) They are soulless dehumanizing ghouls who love replaceable cogs
Coding agent is nothing like a human programmer
Give a man free sex, entertainment, and comfort, and he’ll forget his goals.
Give him pain and heartbreak, and he’ll feel like conquering the world.
Dear bro, hard times are a blessing, not a curse.
the mistake I'm not making again if I start a new company: do not treat CI as a production workload, even with business hours oncall
That or doing a DHH and move all the CI to local runs
My brain is reeling with the implications. I keep having these revelations and I'm beginning to wonder when they will stop.
It turns out that property testing is yet another hardening technique that the agents can profitably engage. Agents can determine whether a function is appropriate for property testing, and can specify the range and domain of those tests. They can implement them quickly, run them, and fix any detected issues.
I just found two production bugs this way. Property testing is going to be part of my normal practice, along with Crap analysis, Function mutation, acceptance test mutation, Dry analysis, etc.