> 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?
Some people are, and some people are not. This is where some of the disconnect is coming from.
> Who is just turning AI loose to modify things as it sees fit?
In the advent of source control, why not? If it does something egregiously wrong, you can throw it away easily and get back to a previous state with ease.
> If I'm not directing the work, how does it even know what to do?
You're directing the work, but at a higher level of abstraction.