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 ...

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!

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 ...

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!

Hey Jack,

Been using Bob myself for the past few weeks.  Ran out of "bobcoins" but fortunately it was on January 31st so I was able to start again on Feb 1.  But, it's still a mystery as to where these bobcoins can be added to.  Bob itself directed me to the Cline settings to check balances and subscribe but it doesn't exist in my install of Bob.  My install was through the early access beta.  So, do you know where we can subscribe or at least augment the "coins" should we run out?  

BTW, it is a highly productive environment for me (and I am not a big fan of AI...)

Pete

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 ...

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!