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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by grayhatter on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:24PM (#46709458)
> My bad. I will be more mindful tomorrow when someone at a big tech company yet again make-a-mistake in the same direction of AI hyping.

Are you mad at them for playing the game, or mad that that's the game they have to play to advance at their company?

> Like journalists that write about a Fatal Storm In Houston and you read down to the eighth paragraph and it turns out the fatality were among pigeons.

I don't know; I guess I hold people who post on twitter so they can self-promo, or who have attention because they work at $company, to a slightly different standard than I would hold a journalist writing a news article?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by keybored on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:53PM (#46712108)
> I don't know; I guess I hold people who post on twitter so they can self-promo, or who have attention because they work at $company, to a slightly different standard than I would hold a journalist writing a news article?

I know. One of them has a higher salary.

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