AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse

Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by lordnacho on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:52PM (#46548215)

But the benefit might not be speed, it might be economy of attention.

I can code with Claude when my mind isn't fresh. That adds several hours of time I can schedule, where previously I had to do fiddly things when I was fresh.

What I can attest is that I used to have a backlog of things I wanted to fix, but hadn't gotten around to. That's now gone, and it vanished a lot faster than the half a year I had thought it would take.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by llmslave2 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:56PM (#46548248)

Doesn't that mean you're less likely to catch bugs and other issues that the AI spits out?

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by mpyne on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:38PM (#46548623)

Code you never ship doesn't have bugs by definition, but never shipping is usually a worse state to be in.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by ponector on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:51PM (#46549191)

I'm sure people from Knight Capital don't think so.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by mpyne on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:07PM (#46549638)

Even there, they made a lot of money before they went bust. Like if you want an example you'd be better of picking Therac-25, as ancient an example as it is.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by gregoryl on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:29PM (#46549743)

nah, you rely on your coworkers to review your slop!

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by jennyholzer4 on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:43AM (#46553268)

This guy works with AI slop artists

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by lordnacho on Friday January 09, 2026 @06:11AM (#46552610)

No, you are spending less time on fixing little things, so you have more time on things like making sure all the potential errors are checked.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by duskdozer on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:05AM (#46553422)

Not a problem! Just ask the AI to verify its output and make test cases!

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