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#12we're building ShapelessAI, an agent that makes and publishes social content, almost entirely with Claude Code and Codex. One failure worth separating from code quality: agents claiming they verified something they didn't. A test result and an agent's summary of a test result are different evidence; delegating the code doesn't make that distinction go away.
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#13Writing code with agents only scales to a certain extent. You need to govern your agents, otherwise you are creating a problem for yourself. We are using several tools to efficiently scale our agents
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#17In my experience it depends a lot on what you give the agent: agents that work on a project well structured, well documented and the agent is given very good context (that documentation, project structure and a clear pattern/style to reuse) then yes, it can be very productive and provide good quality code, especially if the ask is well contained, explained, has clear goals. If you give no boundaries, no good context, references, pattern and style then yes, they write a huge amount of useless code.
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