We should be more tired than the model

Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but none of the internal processes that happen when we write code by hand. As a quick primer, the human brain has several types of memory, short-term, working, and long-term. Short-term memory gathers information temporarily and processes it quickly, like RAM. Long-term memory includes things you’ve learned previously and tucked away, like database storage. Working memory takes the information from short-term memory and long-term memory and combines them to synthesize, or process the information and come up with a solution. When we’re working on code, (and by working on, we mean most often reading someone else’s code) all of these processes are going on in our brain simultaneously to try to help us make sense of the programming environment. It’s not surprising. Code generation, in its…