Agent-built app shows coding is cheap but verification takes effort
AIIan Hobson's essay argues that agent-generated code shortens coding time but not verification, which for his Task Viewer app meant UI tests, manual checks, and SQL queries against the data. He says claims like "the agent got me 80% of the way there" are hard to interpret, since a plausible calculation can still rest on the wrong records.
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O'Reilly Radar · Markus Eisele · oreilly.comPublished · added here
Original title: Cheap Code, Expensive Confidence