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>>tablet+(OP)
Can someone explain to me what this means?

> People coding with LLMs today use agents. Agents get to poke around your codebase on their own. They author files directly. They run tools. They compile code, run tests, and iterate on the results. ...

Is this what people are really doing? Who is just turning AI loose to modify things as it sees fit? If I'm not directing the work, how does it even know what to do?

I've been subjected to forced LLM integration from management, and there are no "Agents" anywhere that I've seen.

Is anyone here doing this that can explain it?

>>metall+D1
you are giving it instructions but it's running a while loop with a list of tools and it can poke around in your code base until it thinks it's done whatever you ask for.

See Claude Code, windsurf, amp, Kilcode, roo, etc.

I might describe a change I need to have made and then it does it and then I might say "Now the tests are failing. Can you fix them?" and so on.

Sometimes it works very great. sometimes you find yourself arguing with the computer.