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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by alfalfasprout on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:04PM (#46548835)
Yeah but there's also a lot of "lol, my shipped production code doesn't care" type comments with zero info about the type of code you're talking about, the scale, and longer term effects on quality, maintainability, and lack of expertise that using agentic tools can have.

That's also far from helpful or particularly meaningful.

Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by viraptor on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:04PM (#46549626)
There's a lot of "here's how agents work for me" content out there already. From popular examples from simonw and longer videos from Theo, to thousands of posts and comments from random engineers. There's really not much that's worth adding anymore. (Unless you discover something actually new) It works for use cases which many have already described.
Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by shimman on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:21PM (#46549703)
Using two randos that are basically social media personalities as SMEs is just a damning statement about the current trends of programming.
Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by viraptor on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:54PM (#46549872)
The area is still relatively fresh. Those two media personalities do actual work though and provide a summary for today's state. You can wait for an academic research on what happened 6 months ago or a consulting industry keynote/advertisement about what they implemented a year ago... but I'm not sure you'll be better informed.
Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by rectang on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:30AM (#46550386)
… and trollish to boot. Y U gotta “lol”?

But since there’s grey in my beard, I’ve seen it several times: in every technological move forward there are obnoxious hype merchants, reactionary status quo defenders, and then the rest of us doing our best to muddle through,

Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by viraptor on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:59AM (#46551585)
> Y U gotta “lol”?

Because some opinions are lazy. You can get all the summaries you want by searching "how I use agentic coding / Claude code" on the web or similar queries on YouTube, explaining in lots of details what's good and bad. If someone says "it's just hallucinations", it means they aren't actually interested and just want to complain.