Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
by cocoto on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:24AM
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From the very beginning everyone tells us “you are using the wrong model”. Fast forward a year, the free models become as good as last year premium models and the result is still bad but you still hear the same message “you are not using the last model”… I just stopped caring to try the new shiny model each month and simply reevaluate the state of the art once a year for my sanity. Or maybe my expectation is clearly too high for these tools.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
by coryrc on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:19AM
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Are you sure you haven't moved the goalposts? The context here is "agentic coding" i.e. it does it all, while in the past the context was, to me anyway, "you describe the code you want and it writes it and you check it's what you asked for". The latter does work on free models now.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
by laserlight on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:29AM
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When one is not happy with LLM output, agentic workflow rarely improves quality --- even though it may improve functionality. Now, instead of making sure that LLM is on track at each step, it goes down a rabbit hole, at which point it's impossible to review the work, let alone make it do it your way.