I was ready to agree with a pragmatic use of LLM’s until he mentioned that he is working in an agentic style and is scared to touch the code manually because it will confuse Claude. 🤦🏻♂️
I’m all for using the AI as a pair programmer but unleashing it (barely reviewing its changes) on a gigantic Python codebase is a comically foolish move, IMO, Python is not safe for this method of working. In fact, I’d call anything short of Unison (which hashes the entire AST) or something tailor-made for LLM’s like aver a fool’s errand. In my experience, the LLM needs a strict set of guardrails (like a static type system or similar) to get feedback from lest it turn things to spaghetti.
I was ready to agree with a pragmatic use of LLM’s until he mentioned that he is working in an agentic style and is scared to touch the code manually because it will confuse Claude. 🤦🏻♂️
I’m all for using the AI as a pair programmer but unleashing it (barely reviewing its changes) on a gigantic Python codebase is a comically foolish move, IMO, Python is not safe for this method of working. In fact, I’d call anything short of Unison (which hashes the entire AST) or something tailor-made for LLM’s like aver a fool’s errand. In my experience, the LLM needs a strict set of guardrails (like a static type system or similar) to get feedback from lest it turn things to spaghetti.