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Ask HN: Would you let your AI coding agent profile and optimize autonomously?

A Hacker News user asks whether developers would let AI coding agents autonomously profile and optimize code, arguing that AI outperforms humans at these tasks and that human-in-the-loop profiling is a bottleneck.

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Profiling is fun. Coding is also fun. But realizing AI is doing a far better job than me it just makes sense that I hand over the task.

Profiling is still left as a human in the loop kind of work and blocks me to create a better harness.

Would anyone find this needed too? If so, what language and platform?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615910](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615910)

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