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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by mat_b on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:42PM (#46549809)
I have been noticing this myself for the last couple of months. I cannot get the agent to stop masking failures (ex: swallowing exceptions) and to fail loudly.

That said, the premise that AI-assisted coding got worse in 2025 feels off to me. I saw big improvements in the tooling last year.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by itopaloglu83 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:14PM (#46549966)
I keep finding myself saying “stop over complicating things” over and over again, because even the simplest questions about how to load a file sometimes gets a code response that’s the size of a framework.
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