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Surely satire right?
The limitation of 'simple code' makes me think it has to be a joke, since it's the opposite of usual expectations.
If it's too expensive for simple code, it's too expensive for all code.
To the extent it gets expensive, it's more likely with higher end code.
I love watching people discussing AI taking over programmer jobs. I mean I hate that its happening and wish it would just stop, but I still like watching the general tone change.
It makes sense to me… I use a very heavy framework that ensures my agent doesn’t lose context about the systems I develop. But that means every change goes through a big long pipeline and if all you want to do is change a few lines of code then maybe a junior dev is the right fit for that specific task?
Agentic coding would still have the context issues of changing code whether it’s AI or a human: somebody changed something, how do you record that for the next person. You either log it in memory or point it to the git PR, either way it needs to surface the changes.
So yeah, if AI is too expensive to code small problems for a given company than it’s too expensive for them period.
If you just want to change a few lines of code why not just, you know, change them?...
The hard part isn’t changing the lines of code it’s finding them. An agent can do it in the background for you while you work on other things rather than spend 10-15 minutes hunting for the exact line you want