AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse

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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