Comment by baxtr

I’ve started asking people to show me their products. I don’t get good answers so far. Maybe that’s just my small sample size / bubble of people I interact with.

My thinking is that showcasing / interacting with products built by LLMs will tell you a lot about code quality AND maintenance.

I mean it’s easy to spin up static websites. It’s a whole another thing to create, maintain and iteratively edit/improve an actual digital product over time. That’s where the cracks will show up.

That also might be the core problem of agentic code: it’s fairly fresh so you won’t see products that have been maintained for long.

Thus, my current summary is: it’s great for prototyping and probably for specific tasks like test case generation but it’s not something you want to use when working on a multiyear product/project.