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What I doubt most about this shift of "forget writing code or reviewing it you shouldn't even look at it" (their tagline was "review demos, not diffs") is the ignorance of scope-drift. I use agentic tools all day and I can tell you I would absolutely not trust an agent to run for hours without supervision because it is very likely that over the course of HOURS (even with a fully detailed structured plan with .md files and loaded preferences) the agent will have drifted substantially from your initial request.

The biggest attestation to this is: When Claude is done working on something for you and you haven't told defined the next steps - ask it what you should do next. See if it at all aligns with what you actually wanted to do.

Now imagine that compounded for hours.

I’m so exhausted by all the thought leadership from AI company executives. Can you just market a product without a meta discussion on how things are changing so rapidly and where they’re headed? Or better yet, use those legions of agents to cure cancer or something.

To be honest, that sounds pretty nightmarish. The last thing I want is to spend my work time managing whole teams of AI agents