Re:Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents
by jonah on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:57PM
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Exactly why I put "self-driving" in quotes. Right now AI assisted coding might generally be at the equivalent of Level-2 or -3 self-driving. Getting to autonomous coding agents will be like the step change that is Level-4 or -5 driving.
Re:Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents
by teatro on Saturday March 28, 2026 @02:36AM
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Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1] And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2]
[1](https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-...) [2] (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/waymo-pro...)
Re:Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents
by gruez on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:56AM
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>Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1]
If you look at waymo's prior blog posts, you'll realize that the people in Philippines aren't making split second decisions that was implied by "you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should".
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response
>And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2]
What's the failure rate of humans? For both AI drivers and coders, if they make less mistakes than humans, that's still a win.
That might be an issue for supervised "self-driving" cars (eg. tesla FSD), but not really applicable to self driving cars as a whole. Waymo seems to be doing just fine for instance.