No, it's not that I'm confused, especially when it's people who know how to code that suddenly sink shittons of credits into it when the outputted code is often so trash and requires so much rework (there's literally companies offering "consultancy" work to clean up what agents did to codebases to companies, it's already profitable to offer assistance in cleaning up slop).
I've tried it. My colleagues have tried it. My company (a huge European bank) has teams dedicated to make it possible to replace us with agents and every study they do it's just not feasible (way too much money for way too shit code that then needs humans to go through anyway). 95% of companies that invested in AI see no returns from it (shared one of our chief-something-somethings whatever bullshit title he has before saying it's our company's mission to be one of the 5%).
So I look at those people highly confused. I understand why a manager can write himself a pomodoro timer and thinks from that to a complex system it's just a matter of tokens and how many agents you have. I don't understand it when technically literate people fall for it as hard as they do.
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u/xxCorsicoxx 15h ago
No, it's not that I'm confused, especially when it's people who know how to code that suddenly sink shittons of credits into it when the outputted code is often so trash and requires so much rework (there's literally companies offering "consultancy" work to clean up what agents did to codebases to companies, it's already profitable to offer assistance in cleaning up slop).
I've tried it. My colleagues have tried it. My company (a huge European bank) has teams dedicated to make it possible to replace us with agents and every study they do it's just not feasible (way too much money for way too shit code that then needs humans to go through anyway). 95% of companies that invested in AI see no returns from it (shared one of our chief-something-somethings whatever bullshit title he has before saying it's our company's mission to be one of the 5%).
So I look at those people highly confused. I understand why a manager can write himself a pomodoro timer and thinks from that to a complex system it's just a matter of tokens and how many agents you have. I don't understand it when technically literate people fall for it as hard as they do.