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Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by ivape on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:52AM (#45524792)
Just stop. You need to take some time and run some Google searches before 2022 on HN and just read how blind sided this community has been by AI. Take the L, like everyone else.

Quite frankly, discussion about LLMs being hype is not useful for an innovation focused community, especially when it’s utterly wrong. The AI-is-hype people are so wrong, oh so wrong. This will be fun to revisit in just a year.

Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by exe34 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:59AM (#45524840)
I take it you have bought stocks? What do you recommend?
Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by jsjshxnsbs on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:18AM (#45524956)
I'll take the L when llms can actually do my job to the level I expect. Llms can do some of my work but they are tiring they make mistakes and they absolutely get confused by a sufficiently complex and large codebase.

Quite frankly, not being able to discuss the pros and the cons of a technology with other engineers absolutely hinders innovation. A lot of discoveries come out of mistakes.

Stop being so small minded.

Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by laterium on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:19PM (#45531215)
Why is the bar for it to do your job or completely replace you? It's a tool. If it makes you 5% better at your job, then great. There's a recent study showing it has 15-20% productivity benefits: not completely useless, not 10x. I hope we can have nuance in the conversation.
Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by hansmayer on Friday October 10, 2025 @08:07AM (#45538000)
...and then there was also a recent MIT study showing it was making everyone less productive. The bar is there because this is how all the AI grifters have been selling this technology - no less than end of work itself. Why should we not hold them accountable for over-promising and under-delivering? Or is that reserved just for the serfs?
Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at by hansmayer on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:45AM (#45525126)
Stop what mate? My words are not the words of someone who ocassionally dabbles in the free ChatGPT layer - I've been paying premium tier AI tools for my entire company for a long time now. Recently we had to scale back their usage to just consulting mode, i.e. because the agent mode has gone from somewhat-useful to complete waste of time. We are now back to using them as replacement for the now entshittified search. But as you can see by my early adopting of these crap-tools, I am open-minded. I'd love to see what great new application you have built using them. But if you don't have anything to show, I'll also take some arguments, you know, like the stuff I provided in my first comment.