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I don’t know. I’m making a point that the only people whose sole responsibility is code that they personally write are mid level ticket takers.

I don’t review every line of code by everyone whose output I’m responsible for, I ask them to explain how they did things and care about their testing, the functional and non functional requirements and hotspots like concurrency, data access patterns, architectural issues etc.

For instance, I haven’t done web development since 2002 except for a little copy and paste work. I completely vibe coded three internal web admin sites for separate projects and used Amazon Cognito for authentication. I didn’t look at a line of code that AI generated any more than I would have looked at a line of code for a website I delegated to the web developer. I cared about functionality and UX.

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The difference is that you have theory of mind of your human counterparts -- you can trust that their reasoned explanations are consistent with what you know about them.

I have not encountered an agent yet that I can trust in the same way.


You give way too much credit to mid level developers and outsourced contractors….



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