Damien Tanner

I think this is the thing that slows people down with coding agents.

You use it on existing repo and LLMs have bad taste.

They just give you kind of the most common denominator, kind of bad taste version of anything, whether it's like writing a blog post or coding, right?

And so when you use it on an existing project and then you review the code, you just find all these things wrong with it, right?

It like, you know...

Right now, they love doing all this really defensive try-catch in JavaScript or really verbose stuff or write a utility function that exists in a library already.

But when you start on a new project and you just use YOLO mode and you're just, you know, you're building something for yourself as well, right?

And it works.

Like, where's the code?

Why review the code?

I think we're only in this temporary weird thing where we're, like, trying to jam.

Like, we have these existing software processes that ensure we deliver high-quality software, secure software, good software.

I think it's hard.

We've got SOC 2.

We can't throw those out the window for everything that exists today.

But for everything new that you're building...

You've got an opportunity to kind of pull apart question and collapse down all of these kind of processes we've built for ourselves.

Processes that were built to ensure humans don't make mistakes.

Right.

And help humans collaborate and help humans manage change in the repository and everything.