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Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:37PM (#48004011)
It's not really a hypothetical. I work with one junior who's submitted an incorrect bugfix 3 times and counting; he seems genuinely incapable of processing the idea that there's a correctness issue he has to resolve, rather than a prompt engineering issue that will allow Claude to figure it out if only he asks in the right way.
Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by jfreds on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:08PM (#48004196)
To be fair this was a thing before AI as well…
Re:Agentic Coding Is a Trap by ookblah on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:45PM (#48004398)
that's not the tooling's fault i feel. i've used LLMs to help explore and debug issues, point me to the right documentation to investigate, etc. I WISH i had something like this 30 years ago.