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The role of developer skills in agentic coding

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

Thanks to the “Ensembling with Copilot” group around Paul Sobocinski in Thoughtworks Canada, who described the “context poisoning” effect and the review fatigue to me: Eren, Geet, Nenad, Om, Rishi, Janice, Vivian, Yada and Zack The popular open source coding assistant Cline recently released a feature where the developer can switch between a “Plan” and an “Act” mode, which holds the LLM back from jumping straight to implementation, but also makes it easier to use a different model for the first step, potentially one with reasoning capabilities. Apart from being slow and expensive, the models have the potential limitations outlined above, and in my various attempts at using them for coding or debugging issues, I haven’t found a case yet where o1 gave me noticeably better results than Claude-Sonnet-3.5 in an IDE with good AI context orchestration.

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