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I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

It does, but I also think about how many people use Rails or Django that have never read the code to either framework In this way, coding agents can be thought of as a next level framework that does enormous scaffolding work for us Not as uncomfortable!

I trust those frameworks because their maintainers have earned that trust over many years, plus the code in the frameworks has been exercised by hundreds of thousands of other developers already

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Indeed. And hopefully with time, LLM output will earn our trust too. Until then, and tomyour original point, knowing when we can / cant trust LLM output is a matter of skill.