Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?

Re:Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a ... by hattmall on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:22PM (#45586604)

Could you, or someone, make a video showing a real life coding scenario where an agentic system or just LLM provided significant value? That, to me, would be beyond the value one would get or could have previously gotten from a Google search or stack overflow post?

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Re:Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a ... by pas on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:56AM (#45589343)

I asked it to generate a simple EffectTS script and it did. (It was my first piece of code using Effect, but I know a bit of Scala ZIO, so it was helpful to get started.)

Effect's docs are quite sparse/terse.

And this is usually what I found, it's good when I have a blank page. (Adding new functionality to a legacy system for example.)

But I get upset in no time when I can't really give feedback to it, as the only options are accepting/rejecting the diff or getting stuck in editing manually, but it's in some strange limbo, so usually IDE tools don't work well, and you can't chat with it about the diff, only about what it already thinks are in the files.

(And while this seems like "just" a tooling issue, fundamentally the whole frenzy soured me, I tried Cursor/Windsurf/ClaudeCode and now I'm out of fucks to give ... even though chatting about solutions and writing Markdown docs would be great for everyone, for the projects I work on, etc.)

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Re:Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a ... by geldedus on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:55AM (#45591696)

no I won't. The more people would think agentic-AI-assisted programming doesn't work the more I will have a huge advantage over them

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