Y'all, okay, I want some sanity injected into my brain. Not hype, but real down-to-earth engineering.

Coding agents. Yes or no? Is it possible to use them ethically given the environmental costs and the ways they were trained? Do they actually work well?

No hype. If you say that you have AI agents writing your code all the time, and you won't let me see the quality of the code they're writing, I'm not interested.

Effectively, I'm not convinced, but I'm also open to the possibility that it is worthwhile to figure out how to set them up.

And while I have ethical concerns, we live in a society where I probably won't be able to keep a roof over my head if I let my ethics override business decisions.