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Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island

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I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience . An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that. Mid-last year, I had GPT (maybe 5.0 or 5.1) try to find the source of a bug . Naturally, this code didn't have tests and git bisect wouldn't work, and it was a UI interaction bug for which I'm not even really qualified to write a test for, so I asked codex to bisect between dates X and Y to find the commit that introduced this bug. Codex immediately told me the offending commit was after this date range (which couldn't possibly be correct). On telling codex this was wrong, it then told me some commit that was obviously also not the offending commit once or twice. On telling it those were wrong, it then told me the offending commit was some plausible looking commit.…

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