I've been working with Project Bob, Cline, Roo, Kilo, and Goose.
The productivity gain is immense.
I'm doing everything with tasking agentic code assistants these days.
Even with automatic reviews, approvals, design changes, and eye-checking the code, I'm saving 30% to 70% of the time I used to spend on things.
And the vulnerabilities Bob found last night in the web code I was working on!
Half of them I would not have noticed, and had I noticed, I would have spent hours researching how to mitigate.
Bob points them out incrementally and fixes them under my supervision in batches.
Sometimes I disagree and set things back ...
"Bob, let's cancel this now, I'll solve this differently when we are closer to production"
Incremental checkins ... Incremental checkins ... Incremental checkins ...
We'll have to see how IBM positions this suite and how quickly competition arises ... but whatever the commercial outcome, one thing is clear:
Tasking agentic code assistance is what coding is from now on.
There is no going back!
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Jack Woehr
Senior Consultant
Seiden Group LLC
Beulah CO
3038478442
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