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wasmainiactoday at 1:41 PM1 replyview on HN

No. I work in VC backed startups. Externally they might say that for investors, but talk to a software engineer. Agentic IA is not working, it will regurgitate code from examples online, but if you get it to do something complex or slightly novel, it falls flat on its face.

Maybe it will someday be good enough, but not today, and probably not for at least 5 years.


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pjmlptoday at 3:31 PM

Meanwhile there are people delivering solutions in iPaaS tools, which is quite far from the traditional programming that gets discussed on HN.

Some of those tools aren't yet fully there, but also aren't completely dumb, they get more done in a day, than trying to do the same workflows with classical programming.

Workato, Boomi, Powerapps, Opal,...