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Levels of Agentic Engineering

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Re: Levels of Agentic Engineering

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I still do this too for tough projects in languages I know. Too many times getting burned thinking 'wow it one shot that!' only to end up debugging later. I let agents run wild on frontend JS because I don't know it well and trust them (and an output I can look at).

IMO, the front end results are REALLY hit and miss... I mostly use it to scaffold if I don't really care because the full UI is just there to test a component, or I do a fair amount of the work mixed. I wish it was better at working with some of the UI component libraries with mixed environments. Describing complex UX and having it work right are really not there yet.

Yes, I think what I left off my sentence was that I trust AI on frontend more than myself. Backend and data processing where I know more, I can't handle it's constant hallucinations. I also feel like hallucinations in data pipelines are way more problematic for me. They take a long time to "fix" and can be quite easy to miss, imagine a mean of a mean or something that is 'mostly' right (thus harder to catch) but factually incorrect.
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