[aspenmartin]

It's shocking to me that people make this claim as if humans, especially in some legacy accounting system, would somehow be much better at (1) recognizing their mistakes, and (2) even when they don't, not fudge-fingering their implementation. Like the criticisms of agents are valid, but the incredulity that they will ever be used in production or high risk systems to me is just as incredible. Of course they will -- where is Opus 4.6 compared to Sonnet 4? We've hit an inflection point where replacing hand coding with an agent and interacting only via prompt is not only doable, highly skilled people are already routinely doing it. Companies are already _requiring_ that people do it. We will then hit an inflection point at some time soon where the incredulity at using agents even in the highest stakes application will age really really poorly. Let's see!

[oblio]

Your point is the speculative one, though. We know humans can and have built incredibly complex and reliable systems. We do not have the same level of proof for LLMs.

Claims like your should wait at least 2-3 years, if not 5.

[aspenmartin]

That is also speculative. Well let's just wait and see :) but the writing is on the wall. If your criticism is where we're at _now_ and whether or not _today_ you should be vibe coding in highly complex systems I would say: why not? as long as you hold that code to the same standard as human written code, what is the problem? If you say "well reviews don't catch everything" ok but the same is true for humans. Yes large teams of people (and maybe smaller teams of highly skilled people) have built wonderfully complex systems far out of reach of today's coding agents. But your median programmer is not going to be able to do that.

[blibble]

bored at the weekend, are you sama?

[aspenmartin]

I unfortunately am not the droid you are looking for, I don't know a sama