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I've never been able to one-shot a feature with an agent. It's much easier to "learn my way around the codebase" by watching the AI search the codebase and seeing its motivation/mental model.

Going AFK is a terrible idea anyways because I have to intervene when it's making bad architectural decisions. Otherwise it starts randomly deleting stuff or changing the expected results of test cases so they'll pass.



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