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I've heard "loops" will burn a lot of tokens. Haven't tried it myself. A person could also spool up multiple loops to work on multiple branches at the same time.
I am not convinced yet of letting agents completely unattended. Watching them work makes review easier for me. If I let the agent just produce some result it needed half an hour (or more) for, it’s very likely do convoluted that I can at best skim over it and then go „yeah yeah ok, it’s probably fine “.
I am seeing the first job ads for senior software developers which can debug the resulting mess. A lot of it will be just unmaintenable. They will get 20 years of technical debt with ten times the speed and ten times the volume.