Maintaining a quality code base is more than just having tests and linters. It's about organization, right-sized abstractions, architecture and choosing the right patterns. There is no real way to automate the verification of these things. If an agent farts out a 2,000 LOC feature in a day but bifurcates the code base, duplicates functions or makes awful abstractions, it WILL eventually turn into a big ball of mud.
All that being said, if wielded correctly an LLM can contribute to a healthy repository, but it requires much of the same thought and planning that development pre-LLMs did. I promise you, if you stick with the same code base long enough using your approach and little consideration to its health, it will become a hellish place to build in.
I suspect you haven't worked with agents enough. Start trying! You'll see...
In the age of agents.md files, you direct the agents style, organization and architectural choices. If you thought you were a coder, and a good one, your skill is useless. You now need to be an architect and a manager.
> it requires much of the same thought and planning that development pre-LLMs did
Exactly, there's nothing new to coding with LLMs than there is coding with actual humans.
A human programmer can also fart out a 2000 LOC feature that bifurcates, duplicates and has shit abstractions - they just waste a full two week sprint on it.
With a LLM you get the piece of poop in a day and you still have 7-8 days to tell it to fix its shit. With a human you're two weeks in the hole already and the feature is should be QA'd (2 weeks) and needs to be released in a month so ... fuck =)
The feedback loop with LLM generated code is so much faster than with actual humans and it makes up for (some) of the issues with it.
Can it replace all human coders? Of course not. But all of the bulk shit of adding CRUD operations to a handler or adding a new parameter to a HTTP API and flowing it through the 12 layers of enterprise shit to the database layer can be easily done with an LLM and the humans can focus on the actual creative and difficult bits.
Hey, just so you know I emailed hiring@askmaiven.com and received the following response from google's mailer daemon (excerpt):
> We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (hiring) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group.
Let me know when this is fixed, I would love to send my resume over!
I have not missed them one bit, nor had any desire to unblock them. Like you, I would mindlessly watch them in between tasks at work, and felt duller and worse for it every time my little binge ended. I also got a dumbphone, which I honestly love.
Good luck to you and kudos for caring about your health!
Happy Jamuary! I think this is so great! I'm trying to do produce a musical artifact each day this month. I'm hoping it helps with my bad habit of never finishing songs :)
My wife and I co-sleep with our kids (2 & 4). I get just about a full sleep every night. If the kids wake up I imagine it's much less work to roll over and cuddle with them as opposed to getting out of bed, going to a separate room and then comforting them. Co-sleeping gets bonus points for giving me just a little extra sweet time with my kids, because before I know it they will be older and wanting their own space. They are only little once.
Forgive me here; I'm approaching this from a place of ignorance and curiosity, and I hope I don't overstep any personal boundaries - both for you and myself!
My wife and I had many reasons for why we ultimately chose not to co-sleep. One of those reasons was our sex life. I don't pretend to know what the "norm"/average is, but it's frequent for us, 3-4 times per week, and at the risk of TMI, it can be fairly... involved. We know a few couples who co-sleep and I've always been curious how, or hell, even if, it has impacted their sexual relationships. Clearly it works for them (and you) and that's great! I would just be interested, if you're comfortable sharing, to hear what your experience has been here.
From personal experience: after we had kids, sex became a lot more about opportunity than any particular place (our bed) and time (at night). It was that way for a while. Now, they're a little more grown up, and things are the way they were before. Everything is a phase.
Ha! Perfectly reasonable question. Well, we just about never have sex in our room, but luckily for us our house is large enough with plenty of other venues for intercourse. The hardest thing for both me and my wife is the fact that we can't just roll over and fall asleep afterwards. I do miss those days!
I'm not the person you are replying to, but my kids often find their way into our room before we get there. We usually just move them back to their own beds. If they come back on their own, it's usually not until much later after we've had time to ourselves. My kids go in phases, for a few weeks they will come in every night, then for seemly no reason, they won't come again for a month or so. However with 3 kids, they can't sync that schedule so we more often than not have a kid in our bed.
We co-slept with all three kids and caught flak for it from the pediatrician. She was certain that one or both parents were going to roll over onto the kids and squish them. Very pleased we did it, but you may have to stand your ground with well-meaning but ignorant people.
My wife looked into this and I think the safety issue is mostly a myth. I think the rare cases of child deaths while co-sleeping were when the parent was drunk or smoking in the bed and caused a fire.
I'm sure they are very educated about SIDS. But their job is to give you enough information on the pros and cons so you can make a well informed decision yourself.
It isn't the job of any expert to tell you if you should or should not do something. Humans have been cosleeping with their infants since time began. Clearly there are some serious pros to it. An expert who is truly good will never tell you what to do. They will only inform you of the pros and cons and let you arrive at your own conclusion.
It's the same deal with lawyers, dentists, accountants, security folks, UX designers, engineers and everything else. I mean, could you imagine what a product would look like if you only took input from your lawyer?
>Humans have been cosleeping with their infants since time began.
Take a look at a graph of infant mortality rates since time began, chief. Appealing to "this is how things have always been" does not really work in this case.
> Take a look at a graph of infant mortality rates since time began, chief
Thats cool. I have. But we co-slept anyway because for us the benefits outweighed the risks. Especially while breastfeeding... Raw facts and data alone are not the only things required to make an informed decision on any subject. They only serve as inputs.
There are a range of reasons why the paediatrician may not be giving the full story. Most particularly, they’re toeing the party (AAP) line, which is known to be more conservative than is needed.
Also, population-level data should not be the only input into an individual decision.
We started co-sleeping with our son at first wake at around 8 months, and have been doing that continuously for the past 7 months or so (basically he sleeps with us in bed between 2 and 6ish AM). I've enjoyed the arrangement but my wife is tired of it, due to getting kicked and punched all night long. On top of that, she's 32 weeks pregnant and really needs the sleep.
Does your wife share your enthusiasm for co-sleeping?
That sounds rough! From what my wife has let on, third trimester sleep is tough any way you slice it. My kids kick me sometimes, but usually I can just move them over and resume my slumber. It helps that we took two mattresses (a king and a twin) and pushed them together, so there is plenty of room for the four of us.
And to answer your question, my wife is even more gung-ho than I about co-sleeping. She actually had to convince me to start doing it in the first place, because I shared the concern of lot of commenters here with regards to SIDS.
> my wife is tired of it, due to getting kicked and punched all night
I hope this isn't patronizing. If you want it to work you could put the little one on your side of the bed instead of in the middle. A mattress on the floor next to you can make rolling out of bed a non-event.
Or sleep on a futon / remove the bed stand. There are many variations that work.
All that being said, if wielded correctly an LLM can contribute to a healthy repository, but it requires much of the same thought and planning that development pre-LLMs did. I promise you, if you stick with the same code base long enough using your approach and little consideration to its health, it will become a hellish place to build in.