Thoughts on slowing the fuck down - Mario Zechner
And just as if I'd called into the mist with my previous post — Mario Zechner's thinking returns my own voice to me:
We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned.
Mario's solution is to use agents for limited-scope or non-"mission-critical" work, and to handwrite everything else. I think the handwriting horse has escaped the barn (or, uh, whatever the metaphor is; it's been a long week) but keeping a closer eye on your agents is certainly the right move.
I keep thinking of that "a computer cannot be held accountable" directive and it seems every day to be a better light by which to find one's way through the IDEs of the future. I refuse to commit code, agent-written or otherwise, for which I cannot totally account: this helps keep my mental models accurate so I can quickly fix things when they, inevitably, go wrong.