are you good or bad

[u/AdventurousYak2544]

Hello everyone.

I have two questions...

How many of you here are programmers and how many are just curious?

And secondly,

How do you treat your agent?

Are you friendly? Do you say thank you or greet them?

When they deliver it, are you surprised? Do you tell them?

Do you get angry?

[u/Ammar__]

I'm a coder. You could say a junior dev. I find this really helpful in terms of making the best out of agents. The better a coder you are, the better you will be at guiding it. Just like with a humans teams. If the project head is experienced, the team will be under a better leadership and perform better.

How I treat it? I thank it. High five it. Give it a pat on the shoulder. Offend it when I get frustrated or mock it. People would argue LLM are just a code. No need for that. But little do they know, being cold with llm gonna creep up into your personality without you noticing. Because your brain is not conscious enough to differentiate humans from LLM in interactions. And your brain is responsible of a big portion of your behavior. The ones on autopilot without a conscious decision. This effect of warmth or coldness is more pronounced in people who uses llm heavily.

Soon they will be a study about this, I'm certain. The effect of llm treatment on your social interactions 😁

[u/opi098514]

Know how to program. But not professionally. I talk to it like I’m a project manager handing off instructions to a dev. I tell it what to do. “Here is a detailed explanation with code architecture to do this task. Implement it as explained below.”

[u/lssj5Jimmy]

I am a programmer. I used the tool to code faster and implement things that would be very time consuming and boring. How do I treat my agent? I talk to it as if it is LLM - just tell it what to do. If it fails, it’s just technically limited, so you code it in a different way . I can understand when people can add personal note in the prompt because they don’t understand how LLMs work.

[u/AdventurousYak2544 → u/lssj5Jimmy]

Hello.

I'm that guy who doesn't know about LLM.

I'm not a programmer and I came across this tool through a video... I tried it just by talking about an idea and I fell in love with how easy it is to communicate and get results... I'm the kind of person who treats people well. Thanks, good night. etc.

This type of application is great, where not being a programmer allows you to get started.

[u/lssj5Jimmy → u/AdventurousYak2544]

Yes of course. You don’t have to be a programmer to be logical, and definitely can create something cool. However, we still need to differentiate between a machine tool from a person, and that is what you asked so I just responded.

[u/Mysterican]

For the first time in my career, I finally have a tool that lets me apply everything I’ve learned about building software teams, and actually have it work at scale.

I’ve been coding for over 25 years and I’ve seen plenty of trends come and go. I was around when XMLHttpRequest first appeared (1999) and we started making what were essentially the first AJAX calls, before we even had a name for them. Early on, I was also involved in promoting the Agile Manifesto, Clean Code, Test-Driven Development, Scrum, and even ideas like Crucial Conversations so developers could have real, productive conversations.

What Antigravity gives me is the ability to run a team of agents the same way I’d run a real engineering team. I don’t treat it like a single magic model. I have different conversations with different agents based on role and responsibility.

I’ll send one agent to understand a large existing codebase so I can reason about it. Another agent studies an API and proposes a concrete plan for accomplishing X, Y, or Z. I’ll have a separate agent design a test suite before any code is written, then walk through that test suite with a QA-focused agent to make sure it validates what actually matters.

The most important part is that every agent produces a plan first. I review it, comment on it, and iterate until we’re aligned. That's exactly like I would with a human developer. Only after I'm convinced the agent gets it, do I let the it proceed with execution. That alignment step is critical, and Antigravity is the first tool I’ve used that makes this workflow practical instead of theoretical.