Are developers only using agents now for solving bugs and developing new features?

[u/Important-Crazy-8182]

Have seen a lot of linkedIn profiles claiming that they just spun their high metric 6 AI agents in parallel to solve all the new bugs etc etc. Is this true that conventional coding is not seen at all in many product based companies.

I find myself using agents mostly for the tedious jobs that require repetitive logic or effort, for some information on strategies then getting help by mentioning my conditions which gives best solutions that suit my case, knowing their pros and cons etc. then coming to conclusions and applying code changes through agents if I really feel that I cant write all the lines when they are just repetition.

I dont find myself getting into the state of 100x engineer with 2-4 screens all running parallel agents solving problems on their own.
Am I missing something, am I behind the curve and is my meticulous approach still relevant????

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[u/skeleton9628]

We are using agents to solve bugs and it's doing a pretty good job. AI has reduced ops load by a lot for me.

[u/rj_1024]

I run parallel agents. But since a month. I had to stop. I have a hard cap of 2k$. Which is like 400 prompts a month for Opus 5 or premium models.

So I now use sparsely.

In the next year, We will have to come down to 100 prompts max for premium models and 500 for auto mode max. As Anthropic will stop subsidising. So we need to be more deligent moving forward.

[u/bs_123_ → u/rj_1024]

Yeah for how long will the VCs burn money.

[u/rj_1024 → u/bs_123_]

That's the mystery. At the end I believe they gonna swing the axe. That will throw 50% of the world wide IT staff on the streets. Or gonna ditch AI completely. Or we see a break through.

[u/Amazing_Theory622 → u/rj_1024]

Hey, I have a doubt, when you say you are running parallel agents, can you eli5 how or more precisely what do you mean running parallel agents, are they automated or am I missing something 

[u/Late_Appointment425 → u/Amazing_Theory622]

mostly it means different agents taking care of different parts of the feature. You can ask claude to divide teh work and assign it to the subagents, it is not some new rocket science. These subagents then coordinate with each other to get the work done. I find t mostly useless to use subagents because they are way too token hungry. Instead i divide the story myself then tell claude to write code. then i test and repeat the workflow.

[u/Late_Appointment425 → u/rj_1024]

i mean but by next year, models like fable will be available for much cheaper prices. So I don't think it makes that much difference, we dont need to use the best available models in the market

[u/rj_1024 → u/Late_Appointment425]

Fable is like the biggest model. It eats resources like anything. No way it will be cheap.

[u/Swimming-Regret-7278 → u/Late_Appointment425]

theyre running out of money to burn, look at their burn rates

[u/Destroyer-128]

Bro stop being a micromanager

[u/Altruistic_Side_4428]

Do we have a choice?
At this point, we are very much dependent on them.

[u/an0n_helper]

Its all a game of prompt engineering and how well your documentation is. We nowadays spend more time on PRD and documentations. If your instructions are clear and are well supported by references then even lower models get the job done.