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If someone is assigned a task, be it to review a PR, work on a reasonably complex coding task, or even just asked a simple question, and literally all they do is prompt the agent "do X" and copy-paste the results back to you, with zero guidance or validation on behalf of the human (meaning it was 100% handled by the agent), and sometimes not even disclosing that this was the case, in my opinion this should be grounds for getting the dev in question punished in some capacity, and potentially even fired in more serious cases. No, I'm not talking about the usual AI-assisted workflow which is commonplace nowadays where the human guides the agent, corrects it, reviews what comes out of it and opens PRs based on something that has been properly validated and cleaned up for other humans to review. I'm talking about the scenario where the human was nothing more than a meat proxy between you and whatever agent they used, making you feel that the person added no value and you should've just…

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