Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
by wakawaka28 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:14PM
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Reviewing code can be hard but it's not as hard as writing the code. Even with the best autocomplete, and ergonomic editors like vim, it still takes quite a bit of time to write code for some features compared to the actual concepts being implemented. There are also lots of decisions like variable names that can be automated with a LLM. If you don't like what it came up with, you can tell it to change them. I recommend that you keep them fairly unique like you would for your own handwritten code, because ambiguity creates problems for people and machines alike.
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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
by christophilus on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:39PM
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For me, review is the hard part.