Autonomous AI Dev Workflows

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I disagree; the worst case is that it balloons your line count by 15x and you are left holding the bag and burning through even more tokens (and through your wallet) trying to fix the mess.

In my experience during 2025, that risk is under-represented and downplayed by a lot of folk. I will not go as far as to claim it’s a conspiracy by the LLM vendors. Maybe people with sunk cost fallacy did not want to look bad so they either avoid the topic or downplay the negative outcomes.

In any case, fully autonomous agentic coding is still high-risk. That’s how it looks from where I am standing. It’s not a win-win at all, careful curation is still very much needed. And that part is still extremely difficult to automate or outsource to other agents (though that latter part might be already changing).

I would say this was a much bigger problem until about Nov 2025, but Opus 4.5 improved things in a major way. The code it writes is way less verbose than its predecessor models, at least on the Claude front. I can’t comment on the other models as I don’t use them a lot except for simple bug fixes.

That’s not to say that we’re “there” in terms of autonomous coding, but that the recent progress has been quite promising.