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Am I alone in not prioritizing the quality of prose produced by my coding agent? My foremost and almost only concern is how well it can engineer software.
by Exoristos 15d ago
Am I alone in not prioritizing the quality of prose produced by my coding agent? My foremost and almost only concern is how well it can engineer software.
- anthonyrstevens 15d agoPeople love to complain, particularly if being anti-AI is a big part of their identity.
- andy55a 15d agoWhen you spend 8 hours a day reading it, it has a pretty big impact. At least to me, its style is exhausting. Also very important for software itself. Documentation, tickets, code comments etc
- Exoristos 15d agoI agree it's useless for any final-draft user-facing copy. However, again, I'm much more concerned about a reliable software engineering process, which Claude (and me in the loop) gives me in a way I have learned not to trust (at least not yet) from others.