> But it isn't a lot of work, it's effectively free. All this is just living in inertia right now.
... but it isn't free. You're introducing a certain amount of entropy and drift every time you let the coding agent loose on it. There's a hidden cost of loss of cohesion that comes with changing anything and then changing it back, and while that cost exists with human developers, too, the pace at which they work and think limits the damage and the risks. LLMs just compound them, but the consequences are long-term, while the incentives are to do the thing now.
... but it isn't free. You're introducing a certain amount of entropy and drift every time you let the coding agent loose on it. There's a hidden cost of loss of cohesion that comes with changing anything and then changing it back, and while that cost exists with human developers, too, the pace at which they work and think limits the damage and the risks. LLMs just compound them, but the consequences are long-term, while the incentives are to do the thing now.