Burke Holland
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It could write unit tests, but unit tests, as we're learning, are woefully inadequate for telling you whether or not your code actually works.
So that's a long way of answering your question is that like, I don't have all the answers.
These are just the things that I think about on a daily basis.
And then how do I further get myself out of the loop?
So if I'm sitting here babysitting the thing constantly, how can I automate what I'm doing right now?
Is it possible?
Could Adam, for instance.
Is it possible for me to give Copilot CLI a large job and then walk away and have it message me on Telegram and say, hey, listen, like I did this much.
I think this is what we should do next.
Let me know what you think.
And then I can respond and say, yes, do or don't do this.
And then it goes off and continues to do it.
Can it operate more as like a team lead?
and less as?
And I think the answer is yes, but you have to have the workflows and the checks and balances set up to actually make that happen.
Yeah, I've thought about this a lot myself, where it's like what you really want is for the agent to just work all night, like you said, and then build the thing that I want.
But the problem is it doesn't know what you want and you cannot get out.
everything because you don't know.
And that's not how software is built anyway.
In no world is, are all the requirements and constraints to find upfront.