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From The AI Skill I Rely On Daily — Priscila Andre de Oliveira, Sentry · ≈14:56
Frames the failure mode — teams no longer knowing what is in their own codebase — as the argument for measuring and prioritizing comprehension use of agents.
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- Frames the failure mode — teams no longer knowing what is in their own codebase — as the argument for measuring and prioritizing comprehension use of agents.
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Um So, Armin Ronacher he's the creator of Flask and a former Sentry. Now he's working on his own startup. Today he's going to give a talk here by the way. He's around. Um So, he wrote in his blog post, "When more and more people tell me they no longer know what code is in their own code base, I feel like something is very wrong here." And yes, I agree. Um so, what I hope you you can take away from this presentation is that the biggest unlock from AI in a large code base isn't generation. It's comprehension. I tracked my own usage and I was surprised. 67% of my prompts are com- comprehension and only 2% generation. Maybe you track your own AI usage as well and you can improve it, right? Uh so, AI is the teammate who never gets tired of your questions. So, there is no dumb questions. It's the cheapest senior engineer out there. So, just go for it. Yes, and align your mental model before you prompt because you know the code is going to flow naturally and don't ship slop code into the code base that pays your salary. Ship keynote code.
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