Fair enough, eliciting the plan and the code, and then checking for and if necessary cleaning up the mess afterwards does take time — but the code itself appears so fast that the time seems negligible. And there are plenty of studies showing that people are not very good at estimating whether they’re actually faster in centaur mode, or just feel faster.
So maybe even in coding, agents aren’t actually very helpful yet, and Google are primarily training their engineers to use them anyway in anticipation for when they get better?
Fair enough, eliciting the plan and the code, and then checking for and if necessary cleaning up the mess afterwards does take time — but the code itself appears so fast that the time seems negligible. And there are plenty of studies showing that people are not very good at estimating whether they’re actually faster in centaur mode, or just feel faster.
So maybe even in coding, agents aren’t actually very helpful yet, and Google are primarily training their engineers to use them anyway in anticipation for when they get better?