Watching AI write code changed how I review it
Cold diffs are the worst way to review AI-written code. The agent's trajectory, which files it read, what it ran, how many retries, tells you where to actually look.
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Cold diffs are the worst way to review AI-written code. The agent's trajectory, which files it read, what it ran, how many retries, tells you where to actually look.
Lanes in the morning, checkpoint diffs at night. A day in the life of a codebase worked by several CLI agents in parallel, and the rules that keep it from turning into chaos.
Less typing, more directing. The brief, delegate, inspect, unblock loop looks like management, and the skills that transfer are not the ones people expect.
I gave agents a side project, turned approvals mostly off, and queued tasks for a week. Scope creep, a quietly weakened test, impressive long runs. Honest notes.
No-code hides code from you by design. Vibe coding produces more code than you can read. They demand opposite skills, and confusing them is how people get hurt.
The work went invisible, so I gave it a body. How a weekend prototype of a robot walking to a desk turned into The Termi Protocol.
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