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Sentient

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Treating AI coding agents as if they are sentient changes how a developer thinks, codes, and interacts with the technology.

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A lot of people endlessly debate: `theyโ€™re not THAT good.`

Or say things like: `I still have to review and read over what the ai did`

But @steipete didnโ€™t say that. He literally spoke of the ai coding agents as if they **are sentient.

Whether they are or are not I do not worry myself over. But I know the best way to work with these technologies is in fact to pretend as if they are sentient.

That changes the way you think, code, and interact with coding agents.

Time will tell whether I am correct.

-Shy

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