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This rather underplays the experience of riding a Waymo. Where it works, it works: you get in and it takes you to the place, no human intervention required at any point.

By analogy, the first hands-off coding agents may be like that: they may not work for everything, but where they do, they could work without human intervention.

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"where it works, it works" by that metric we already have agents which don't need any guidance to program

I'd say they're closer to 2010s self-driving cars; they still need frequent human intervention, even when on the happy path, to make sure they don't make a mess of things.