How much of the work here was done by an agent?
(Being AI accelerated doesn't make this project low value. But it does mean _you_ didn't do the port so much as prompt it)
How much of the work here was done by an agent?
(Being AI accelerated doesn't make this project low value. But it does mean _you_ didn't do the port so much as prompt it)
100% was generated by the agent. It was part of my experiment in Zencoder
You're going to be asking this same question a lot going into the future.
Perhaps that means it's not a question worth asking?
I think there is some value in asking these questions. Maybe a better question would be how much effort and time was put into a project.
1. Maintenance: Projects that (seem to) have the same quality and complexity but were built over months or years by hand versus built with an AI tool in a weekend will probably experience different amounts of maintenance in the future. This is, of course, not a black-and-white rule. But simply knowing that people think a project is worth spending months or years on gives me an indication that they probably want to keep it alive in the future.
2. Testing: Projects developed by hand probably underwent a lot more hidden manual testing—maybe on different hardware, maybe by more than one person. Since my personal projects have gotten significantly more complex with the availability of AI coding assistance, I spend much more time writing prompts and thinking about integration testing. But this is not the case for all projects.