[blutoot]

I think the opposite will happen - leadership will forego this attitude of "reverse course on the first outage".

Teams will figure out how to mitigate such situations in future without sacrificing the potential upside of "fully autonomous code changes made on production systems" (e.g invest more in a production-like env for test coverage).

Software engineering purists have to get out of some of these religious beliefs

[verdverm]

> Software engineering purists have to get out of some of these religious belief

To me, the Claude superfans like yourself are the religious, like how you run around poffering unsubstantiated claims like this and believe in / anthropomorphize way too much. Is it because Anthrop'ic is an abbreviation of Anthropomorphic?

[blutoot]

I would be in the skeptics' camp 3-4 months ago. Opus-4.5 and GPT-5.2 have changed my mind. I'm not talking about mere code completion. I am talking about these models AND the corresponding agents playing a really really capable software engineer + tester + SRE/Ops role.

The caveat is that we have to be fairly good at steering them in the right direction, as things stand today. It is exhaustive to do it the right way.

[throwaway7783]

In my own anecdotal experience Claude Code found a bug in production faster than I could. I was the author of the said code, that was written 4 years ago by hand. GPs claim perhaps is not all that unsubstantiated. My role is moving more towards QA/PM nowadays.

[jauntywundrkind]

Even lesser agents are incredibly good and incredibly fast using tools to inspect the system & come up with ideas for things to check, and checking them. I absolutely agree: we will 100% give the agents far more power. A browser, a debugger for the server that works with that browser instance, a database tool, a opentelemtry tool.

The teams are going to figure out how to mitigate bad deploys by using even more AI & giving it even better information gathering.

[majormajor]

Leadership will do what customers demand, which in most cases won't be ship-constantly-and-just-mitigate.

How to find problems through testing before they happen is a decades-long unsolved problem, sadly.