Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by audunw on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:07AM
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I think you’re just lying. Where did you hear this? Some randos online? Years, really? Years ago LLMs couldn’t even program at all.
Every person I’m meeting in the real world who use agents have roughly the same experience. About a year ago they started working reliably and the side projects where we played around with it started seeing actual results.
About 6 months ago I started seeing colleagues and friends all around the same time saying that LLMs solve real problems for them.
For my own case, I’ve replaced years of sloppy spaghetti code in our internal tools and services, from a bunch of engineers many of which has left the company, with code that’s objectively better quality and more coherent (though docstrings and tests tend to accumulate garbage, so cleanups are necessary eventually).
Every person I’m meeting in the real world who use agents have roughly the same experience. About a year ago they started working reliably and the side projects where we played around with it started seeing actual results.
About 6 months ago I started seeing colleagues and friends all around the same time saying that LLMs solve real problems for them.
For my own case, I’ve replaced years of sloppy spaghetti code in our internal tools and services, from a bunch of engineers many of which has left the company, with code that’s objectively better quality and more coherent (though docstrings and tests tend to accumulate garbage, so cleanups are necessary eventually).