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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by serf on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:10AM (#46550614)
limited prompts work well for limited programs, or already well defined and cemented source bases.

once scope creeps up you need the guardrails of a carefully crafted prompt (and pre-prompts, tool hooks, AGENTS files, the whole gambit) -- otherwise it turns into cat wrangling rapidly.

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Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse by anonzzzies on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:22AM (#46550684)
Not in our (30+ year old software company) experience and we have large code bases with a lot of scope creep ; more than ever as we can deliver a lot more for a lot less (lot more revenue / profit too).
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