My first thought is, does this mean that along with the burnout I'm feeling with talking to my own agents I now need to try and consume and understand my teammates conversations with agents? Why is this better than a good pr description that distills completed work and explains why it was required ?
Yes, but compared to seeing 3k lines of code in a PR with no history with vibes in the description, what is better? This definitely "feels" like something worth exploring.
We never accepted 3k lines of code in a PR from a human, why do we from LLMs?
And if we're going to, why are LLMs not doing the PR review?
And if we don't trust them, then isn't that a rather large obstacle to the idea that LLMs are going to replace humans in software engineering?
You can defer review entirely to an LLM, only to human reviewers, or both. We are experimenting with both and have configured LLM skills for pull request reviews. On large projects we also configure LLMs to produce commit segregated diffs within a single pull request, to aid human review. This process is using the github pull request workflow that Zed is attempting to replace.
Why is "feels" in quotes?
Anyway, I'm probably being over cynical and yes it is worth exploring alternatives to the current system.
However I already feel overwhelmed dealing with agent chats. I can't currently see how this deals with the pr problem: If I am supposed to delegate to agents why do my conversations need reviewed by my peers. This feels like classic bad management practices of not trusting the staff below you to get on with it, instead turn up in every meeting.
And end up with 3k lines of code + conversation history?
It is for when management thinks PRs are “slowing us down” and we need to use Delta
Software Engineers avoid coding more than any other type of people I have ever met. It's clearly not better but much easier for the Engineers who just want the results without knowing anything about the solution.
At least traditionally, software engineers avoided everything except coding for a long time, but now i guess that's changed