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terabytestyesterday at 3:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Your point is fair, but it rests on a major assumption I'd question: that the only limit lies with the user, and the tooling itself has none. What if it’s more like “you can’t squeeze blood from a stone”? That is, agentic coding may simply have no greater potential than what I've already tried. To be fair I haven't gone all the way in trying to make it work but, even if some minor workarounds exist, the full promise being hyped might not be realistically attainable.


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linesofcodeyesterday at 3:33 PM

How can one judge potential without fully understanding or having used it to its full potential?

I don’t think agentic programming is some promised land of instant code without bugs.

It’s just a force multiplier for what you can do.