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All non-trivial code terra has generated for me has had at least one serious bug in it. Typically caught by a review from myself or Sol.

But I wouldn't trust lower tier models for end to end solutions.

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Personally I wouldn't want bots running autonomously on a repo, even if there were other bots cross checking them. But that having been said, I'd also say that my experience was similar with human code: it is rare to not find at least some issue worth at least pointing out. The only real difference is that the LLMs have vastly different holes than people do, making the real challenge trying to make sure you're covering them. In most cases for me the best solution seems to be just giving them a way to test and attempt to prove things out in a realistic environment. But clearly, we haven't really left the era of having humans in the loop. Fully vibe-coded codebases clearly suffer from a myriad of issues.

Multiple security holes. Issues marked fixed that aren't really. Giant holes left in solutions.

Sol over engineers now and then (hey please don't factor that function out into its own file....) but it doesn't do the same level of stupid terra does.

That said, plan with Sol, implement with terra, have Sol fix all the mistakes, then I go over the code and make recommendations for the architecture to fix Sol's foolishness.

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