Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap
by hypeatei on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:24PM
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> We're in a cesspit of business driven development
It's not just businesses doing it either, I regularly see big PRs get merged on open source projects that seem fine on the surface but contain a 1000 paper cuts worth of bugs (not critical, but just enough to annoy you)
On top of that, the code wasn't idiomatic C++ (for this specific project) and the LLM completely ignored available APIs. Sure, it can be fixed, and maintainers should've caught it, but the amount of code being generated requires so much energy on everyone's behalf.
It's not just businesses doing it either, I regularly see big PRs get merged on open source projects that seem fine on the surface but contain a 1000 paper cuts worth of bugs (not critical, but just enough to annoy you)
On top of that, the code wasn't idiomatic C++ (for this specific project) and the LLM completely ignored available APIs. Sure, it can be fixed, and maintainers should've caught it, but the amount of code being generated requires so much energy on everyone's behalf.