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Effective engineering involves planning before coding, typically through writing a Request for Comments (RFC) to outline features and breaking them into smaller, manageable issues. This method helps maintain manageable code reviews and prevents complications from large merges, though it requires making critical structural decisions early in the process.
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- Praise: The idea of using AI agents to clean up git histories is intriguing; it could streamline the messy process of iterative coding and make deployments cleaner.
- Praise: There’s a lot of good advice here for shipping substantial changes while maintaining code quality, which is crucial for mature codebases.
- Concern: Many commenters find the AI-generated article hard to understand and believe it lacks clarity, which undermines its value.
- Concern: The examples of AI agents making changes are largely criticized as being terrible, with many users noting they're filled with unrelated adjustments that don't focus on quality.