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Agents are relentless in a way humans can't be. Agents will try 14, 15, 20 different approaches to trigger a bug without getting tired or losing focus. Brian found bugs that required the agent to try 14 times before succeeding. As Brian notes, "Cognitive energy declines over time in a way that agents don't."

Lenny Rachitsky
3w ago

Practical quality beats theoretical quality every time. In theory, a human engineer with infinite time and focus might produce better code than an AI agent. In practice, humans lose context over days, have decaying attention spans on hard-but-tedious problems, and skip benchmarks they know they should run. AI agents maintain consistent focus, run every test, and can work on problems continuously for days or weeks.

4w ago

Engineers who come into technical interviews focused only on finding a working solution fastest are missing the point—'the robots can find a working solution faster than they can.' The human role has shifted to something broader: understanding the full suite of tools, knowing when to use AI versus when to step in personally, and bringing taste and judgment to the process.

1mo ago

Your code is better documentation than your docs. Al realized public documentation couldn't answer his enterprise customers' detailed technical questions. By pulling all 15 of Galileo's repositories into VS Code and querying them with Claude Code, he can now answer questions about how services cascade together, how features actually work, and deployment specifics that aren't captured anywhere else.

3mo ago

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