alt Hacker NewsHard disagree, I’ve been agentic coding the past couple of months and have written maybe 100 lines doing this for a living.
The rest is coming up with SDDs and reviewing AI’s code.
I can easily see most devs, doctors and lawyers automated away in the next couple of years.
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throwawaysleep • last Saturday at 6:20 AM
Very much agree.
I am overemployed with 3 dev jobs at once. AI is writing virtually all my code and letting me nap all day. Eventually that will end once people see the power of them.
seattle_spring • last Saturday at 4:51 PM
I'd love to get access to codebases made entirely with agentic coding that people deem a success. Everything they've suggested for me beyond trivial work has been wildly overcomplicated.
Either we have wildly different difficulty levels at our jobs or this is bs. I tried the agents (I get access to basically all state of the art from my company) and they still have all the same issues of agents from a year back. Each step gets more chaotic and the end result is always that I end up reverting the over complicated mess it made and writing it myself. One-offs with lots of context still sometimes work.
Even a perfect eval loop like failing tests end up 80% of the time with them creating something way too complicated since they solve one visible but not root issue at a time and build on top of that hacky foundation until again I end up reverting it all