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Do people actually use agents for production code? I feel like it is one of those things that people don't use but is sold to us that everyone uses. A lie to promote bullshit.
I have an engineer that uses it heavily.
It adds so much extra and he'll push thousands of lines of code into a PR every week. He had one bug and tried to refactor it, he bloated that single file by 16%.
It's almost impossible to review.
This is just a waste of the reviewer's own time that could be better spent doing actual work. Is it at least split up into multiple commits, or is it one giant shitshow?
Yes, they do.
I sometimes do, but very sparsely, it's hard to come across a task that's good fit for an LLM unless you're prototyping something, imo