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max_on_hn | 9 months ago

I think we see this a lot with software development AI; the tab complete only has to be “good enough” to be worth tweaking. Often “good enough” first pass from the AI is a few motions on the keyboard away from shippable.

Now with headless agents (like CheepCode[0], the one I built) that connect directly to the same task management apps that we do as human programmers, you can get “good enough” PRs out of a single Linear ticket with no need to touch an IDE. For copy changes and other easy-to-verify tweaks this saves developers a lot of overhead checking out branches, making PRs, etc so they can stay focused on the more interesting/valuable work. At $1/task a “good enough” result is well worth it compared to the cost of human time.

[0] https://cheepcode.com

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