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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by mdavid626 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:46AM (#46701960)
Are you serious?

“Most of these were really boring and tedious to implement (basically a lot of special cases) and I wasn't sure which would work, so I had Claude try them all.”

I doubt you verified the boring edge cases.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by SatvikBeri on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:28AM (#46705435)
I mean, as I said, I literally had Claude prototype them, and then I rewrote the working one from scratch. I didn't commit any of the code written by Claude.
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