AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse

Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by jimbo808 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:17PM (#46547893)

This is not always the case, but I get the impression that many of them are paid shills, astroturf accounts, bots, etc. Including on HN. Big AI is running on an absurd amount of capital and they're definitely using that capital to keep the hype cycle going as long as possible while they figure out how to turn a profit (or find an exit, if you're cynical - which I am).

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by thierrydamiba on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:23PM (#46547953)

That’s a bit of a reductive view.

For example, even the people with the most negative view on AI don’t let candidates use AI during interviews.

You can disagree on the effectiveness of the tools but this fact alone suggests that they are quite useful, no?

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by zeroonetwothree on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:26PM (#46547984)

There is a difference between being useful for sandboxed toy problems and being useful in production.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by kop316 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:17PM (#46549376)

Not really. I'd rather find out very quickly that someone doesn't know a domain space rather than having to wade through plausible looking but bad answers to figure out the exact same thing.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by viking123 on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:59AM (#46550852)

At this point it's foolish to assume otherwise. Applies to also places like reddit and X, there are intelligence services and companies with armies of bot accounts. Modern LLM makes it so easy to create content that looks real enough. Manufacturing consent is very easy now.

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