Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?
This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation? I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this? 2 comments on Hacker News.
This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation? I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this?
This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation? I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this? 2 comments on Hacker News.
This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation? I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this?
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