Make it right

Today I was reminded of the old Kent Beck maxim, “Make it run, make it right, make it fast”, and it struck me how well this applies to coding with AI. LLMs have become pretty good at making it run. But what does “right” mean in the context of this codebase? How fast is fast enough? These questions still require human judgement. This is what I find so bothersome about the hands-off approach to…