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I already know like five of them, it's more than enough to write anything my weird brain comes up with :D. I'm fine with the setup I have now, if I ever would have to use agentic coding because my employer would demand doing things faster, for the pure sake of doing things faster, I will just quit. If everyone started demanding that, I will just say "goodbye" to my IT career for good because that wouldn't be fun anymore; yet another white collar job.

It's only about me having fun from coding. The low-level stuff is the most fun part. I don't know why is it so hard to swallow pill.





I think you might have identified where it would help you the most then.

So if your preference is to avoid high level stuff then genetic coding may be useful for, as an example, updating your suite of tests after a major refactoring. Or if you have no tests because that may not be your style, then generating some robust test scripts might be a good use case.

Or maybe you create one good test but you need to expand it with a lot of various alternative edge cases. Agents can generate the edge cases for you based on the test you already wrote.

Or writing high level plumbing like checking if the scopes are all correct still in your dependency injection scaffolding. Etc

It sounds like you’re highly defensive of the part of your job you like, which is commendable of course, but there may be opportunity to improve the parts you don’t like.




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