AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse

Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by paodealho on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:52PM (#46547666)

There isn't anything clear until someone manages to publish measurable and reproducible results for these tools while working on real world use cases.

Until then it's just people pulling the lever on a black box.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by nfw2 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:56PM (#46547710)

This is the measurable evidence you are talking about: https://a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps/

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by overfeed on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:11PM (#46547844)

Here's even earlier evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by nfw2 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:25PM (#46547975)

this point is about revenue not valuations

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by FEELmyAGI on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:28PM (#46549737)

All three companies profiled are selling products TO vibe-coders, not apps created BY AI-utilizers.

The shovel seller in the gold rush analogy.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by conception on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:43PM (#46549816)

Hundreds of millions of people use these every day on real world use cases. If they didn’t work, people wouldn’t use them.

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