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For me, I still enjoy getting my hands dirty. Let me share a story:

Last week vnlib got a big feature update. A single feature (zstd response compression) and it wasn't really my hand that wrote the code that added the feature. The feature was a single C file. The next almost 2 weeks were just review, bug fixing, and build script refactoring, docs, etc. I realized the fun part was writing that feature, like 300 lines of code, could have been done in a day instead of 10 seconds, and it wouldn't have slowed anything else down. While it's helping me though the other processes _a lot_. I let it do the easy part, the fun part, and it can't help me do the hard boring part of software. I believe this is a fact as it exists now and I think many people are coping.

Still super useful and a productivity boost, but lets be real with whats sustainable.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

what i mainly get the coding agent to do for me is stuff that i'd spend a long time debugging that usually is simple but complex enough to get wrong.

sometimes it really struggles to do what i want and in those cases i often then just whip out the right code in like 20 minutes after watching it fail for 2 hours.

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