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Agents hand you five working versions. How do you pick the one that ships?

Any coding agent gives you a working version of a feature in minutes. Ask again and you get another one, also working, slightly different. Working stopped being the filter.

My rule is simple: I ship the version with the fewest moving parts, because I'm the one debugging it at 2am. Speed of writing means nothing against speed of fixing.

What's your filter? Curious if anyone has a better rule than simplest one wins

23d ago

The "five-minute AI task" that wasted 40 minutes of my life

I used to plan my lunch breaks around AI tasks. Pick the one task that's easy enough to just hand off, start it, go eat.

Came back more than once to find the agent had stopped two minutes in over some dumb question. Not even a permissions thing, it just sat there waiting for me to say "go ahead". Didn't even know it was stuck until I checked.

What area would you NEVER trust to Ai, in your inbox?

I mainly follow the principle of "reversibility".

EG. An archived newsletter or a starred investor email can be always reversed.

If ai is right -> makes my life easier

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